DISTANT FIELDS. LI». 1

Otago Witness, Issue 2860, 6 January 1909, Page 52

DISTANT FIELDS. LI». 1

XDW ZEALANDER3 IX QUEENSLAND. CTrom Our Own Correspondent.) CHEIbTIJRCRCH, January 4. Mr A. C. Thompson, ci Chr.&tjhurch, who will leave for hi* new home in Queera-laud hoon, told a Timani Herald reporter that there were now 13 New ZeaJandeib m possession of farms v.ithin a radius of a few miles of his holding on the Darling Downo, ,md all the laud adjacent to him, which \w* on the m«ik"i a couple of month* ajo, wa- now t>.id. A s^ood HKiny North L^and .'miuers aie ,_».n^ o-\ er to Australia, and Mr Thompson is <,f opinion that with the scicitiiic method which New Zealanders are mtiodii- iii^: o\i 1 there it will only be a short time befoiv Australia will be able to produi c wheat <>f such quality and sucli quantity as to be able to c end it over to New Zealnnd and sell it cheaper than it can b« pewn here. Mr B. F. G. Coclnane, of Timaiu. who , recently returned fiom a tim io Axiitialin, lias formed a similar opinion, and he , thinks further that, when the light crocs of sheep for breeding fat lambs is generally adopted over theio. An-trulia will capture the fat lamb trade, us the land i* so -much cheaper a^d the excenso of ieurin? lambs so much kss than it is here. Mr Cochrane lwa formed the opinion thiit

' a fortune can be made from sheep in 1 Australia in a very short time.