EXODUS OF FARMERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14578, 17 July 1909, Page 13

EXODUS OF FARMERS.

KOX. T. AIACIU'INKIK'S VIEW. (I?ek Suited Pukss Association.) CHSISTCHUECH. July 16. | The Hon. T. Mackenzie does not' regard in '.i very serious li»lit tlia si.-.itwncuts nu'de ra-ontly that New Zcuhiul fnvinprs are migi'tiliiifj in liii'ije numbers to Australia. : Ho told n reporter to-day that as far as , lie know the farmers who were leaving the i Dominion were for the must purl men' v.'hri ' had done remarkably well lu.'re, and who ' saw an opportunity in Queensland f.nmaking iiivestmrnts, which, if the sea-mis were good, would give- them a. splendid ; return. " I do not at all regard the po.'i- i

{ion as an exodus of fanners," ho said. "I* rather (mints to Hie fact that thcra i« such an accumulation of internal capital, its I might, say, that it lia.s enabled people to make investments in undertakings in other countries. They are not all suc-c<-:sfu!. .Another complexion is placed on (he question by the circumstances of a gentlemjii I knew. Ho struggled on Queensland farms. He hoped against hops lor four or live years, 'Filially, owing to a drought, he lost his two property's*, and really his own life. Tks following season proved to be a good one, and money is mw ilowing into those, who have his properties, ft is a gamble! -and it !? only those who can afford to gamble who should enter into the game. Thei'o does not seem to b? anything modi in Iho cry of the new exodus. That; at anyrate, is mv opinion. "