As an example of the high prices now rulin** for freeaing iairibs, the Timaru Herald states that a line of 527 freezing lambs, sold by auction on account of Mr R. Skinner, of Hilton, realised 16s 6d per head. . Under date March 22nd, a London correspondent writes: — "In my last letter I spoke of thc enterprise of Canada in the matter of population getting. It advertises itself bettor and more extensively than any of the colonies. At the motor exhibition at Olympia just now is to be seen a motor 'bus containing a selection of Canadian products, with the following emigrant-wooing mottoes : 'Free Farms for Willing 'Workeiw.' "Light Taxes.' "160 Acres Farm Land Free,' 'Ensrland's Nearest and Greatest Colony,' 'Canada is Britain's Big Bread Basket,' 'Share in tlie Last Best West.' The 'bus is afterwards j to tour England on 'behalf of the colonial j Government.' ,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10965, 7 May 1907, Page 4
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