SETTLERS’ SUCCESS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19240, 2 August 1924, Page 17

SETTLERS’ SUCCESS.

A JUBILANT IMMIUVANT. (Fnou Ora Own Cop.esspondent.) SYDNEY, July Z 4. Of the immigrant who comes out hero and fails and who writes gloomy letters home, much is heard. His despairing voice, as through a magna vox, is heard throughout the land. But what of the man who, with faith and hope and a strong right am, battles through'to success. Just read this letter by a man who had lived all his life in the British Navy, and who landed in Sydney .n 1919 with less than £3OO: —“I have great difficulty in making people believe that wo are doing so well. But tho fact is that in less than two years from landing, ami with less than £SOO capital, the Government Savings Bank had advanced me £I3OO, speaks for itself. From passion vines alone, in my second year, wo grossed over £7OO after commission and freight expenses, and in the last two years we have planted out ten acres of young citrus trees. We were living m a slab shed for nearly 18 months; then wo built a six-roomed house and had tho telephone installed. In four years wo have grown over 6000 half-cases of passion fruit, and this year our mandarin crop is one of tho largest in the district. There are 13 souls living on the place, and wo have to make provision for three more in tho next six months. This shows what can bo done, as wo are only starting yet, and have all tho future before us. ’ Tho letters of men like that arc making the wilderness blossom as the rose, who, in their ministry to a bountiful Nature, are making good for themselves and Australia, ought to be posted all over the United Kingdom.