BACK FROM SOUTH AFRICA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 69, 4 November 1911, Page 4

BACK FROM SOUTH AFRICA.

AN OLD VOYAGEUR. Mr H. S. Sanders, an old resident of Stratford, has again returned from South Africa, this being his twelfth and final trip to the Dark Continent, where his two sons and son-in-law are engaged in agriculture (mealie growing). He found them all well ,ancl doing well, but each of them say that cro long they intend to again return and take up their quarters in Maoriland—that they now more than ever realise that life in South Africa possesses but few pleasing features to a progressive colonial, the conditions there using very primitive and strongly savouring of tiiose obtaining in the days of Noah. Mr Sanders says that from his experience there he would earnestly advise all New Zealand wives who are unfortunately possessed of grumbling, dissatisfied husbands, to coaxing ly persuade them to take a trip to South Africa and spend a short period on the veldt amidst the Dutchmen and the Kaffirs, and without doubt they would soon return quite changed beings, thoroughly cured of their malady. Mr Sanders says he had a fairly smooth trip across both ways, and' that he has been a passenger more than once in nearly all the steamship lines trading to the colonies, and that his choice favours the Liverpool, White Star, and New Zealand lines, their steamers being large and roomy and the catering and accommodation excellent. Mr Sanders says he is delighted to be back •' again to the Land of the Moa, and by contrast ho realises it more than ever as being a country brim full of progressive vitality, a country where a large section of the human family dwell together amidst happy conditions in peace, with full and plenty—a country expressed in the words of that old hymnal : where every prospect pleases, and man alone is vile. Mr Sanders,

at Hobart, met Mr and Mrs Green - well and family (old Stratford residents) returning from England l.v the s.b. Athonic; tiny are all in the pink of health. Mr Greenwell told him that !he found the Old Country methods still very antiquated, the industrial conditions much congested, and that ho soon felt a peculiar longing after the many seductive charms of New Zealand; they were simply by contrast irresistible, so lie soon decided to return to the land of his \ adoption.