PROSPERITY OF SOUTHLAND.
The return I have had prepared shows that since 1699 Southland has progressed in material aspects in a remarkable manner indeed. In that comparatively short period the unimproved value of land has increased toy £825.000, the value of improvements by '£830,000; capital value ©( land by £1.657,000, the land in sown grasses by 130,000 acres, the total area of land in cultivation, including eown grasses and fallow land, by •107,000 acres.— (Applause.) The land in crops has decreased by 25,000 acres, the sheep have decreased by 87,000, horses and cattle have increased by 21,000, so that you .■will see that our settlers are increasing the value of their properties very largely, and while a decrease has taken place in the number of sheep, the value of the increase "in horses and cattle is .more than the value of sheep that have decreased. I I mention this in order to show that in some instances there is a transfer in the class of live stock that settlers are giving their attention to. Dairying is supplanting sheep in many cases. The whole position indicaes one "of - very steady progress and prosperity which I believe the fertility of th<*. soil, aided t>y the industry of i|ifeP 00 P v ' iation, will render greater and greafsPover a long period of years.— (Applause.) For anany years I have preached both in Southland and other. parts of the colony the fact •that there was a great future before this part of the colony. Results show that I ■was oorect. Many who at one time thought little of tho Southland land have been turning their attention to it in recent periods. Many of those who held high-priced lands further north have been unloading and coming to the south to purchase land equal in capacity, and in many, cases at one-fifth of the price, and this must tell its tale in the ordinary course of events. Southland cannot, any more than any other part of the colony, enjoy growth and prosperity without the reflex being for the colony's good.— (Applause.)
PROSPERITY OF SOUTHLAND.
Otago Witness, Issue 2675, 21 June 1905, Page 37
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