WHAT OUR ENGLISH VISITORS SAID.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12681, 28 October 1909, Page 4

WHAT OUR ENGLISH VISITORS SAID.

What you want- in New Zealand is young men with, a few thousand pounds, who -\\*iil acquire land, after first of all learning lioiv -to use, it. There is any amount of scope hero for such people. I don't think, however, that you requiro any importation of mechanics or unskilled labour. With a<n increase in the number of fanners more labour will naturally be required; and that can easily _be forthcoming.— Mr. . P. Warn-ford-Davis, of London.-^ , " . The<re can be no doubt that within 25 or 30 years there, will be an enor- ■ mous dearth of timber throughout the world, and this is being recognised in all the European! countries. I have large interests in Norway, using as I do. a. large number of- trees daily in my business as a paper manufacturer. ' The Scandinavian countries are, however, adopting very stringent laws re the wasting of their forests, and I can- ; therefore imagine 110 more profitable investment likely to grow into great value in 25 years time than the planting of white and Ted pines.— Mr. Joseph Dixon, of Sheffield. I certainly have never seen, anything in or out of the Empire to touch the class: .of scenery that wo have been privileged to witness in Rotorua and. the surrounding districts. It is certainly worth coming out all the way from England, if ouly to see these marvellous thermal wonders. — Mr. P. Warnford-Davis: You must? give the Home people your desires as to immigration and as to what class you really want to come out' here. By hard work and diligence on their part there is no reason why' immigrants should not attain to a new position in this country. It is for ylou to say 'at what age you would: like to have the- immigrants, sent out, and in. other ways formulate a scheme which the Home authorities may lay before those able.-bodied men desirous of emigrating, and whether it recommends itself to their acceptance. It is without doubt a desirable plan to take lads, say at the age of 16, and by offering them a home aivd Teasonable- recompense for their work, enable them by the time they are three or four and twenty years of age to have every reason for looking forward to obtaining grants of land, and so help to develop the wonderful resources of the Dominion which undoubtedly obtain.— Mr. H. L. Riseley, of Bristol. He found within his own Church — r.nd he was ashamed to admit the fact — numbers of Pharisees who did more to hinder the cause of Christ and His Church than most people imagined — men who surrounded themselves with the certainty that thei r cramped intarpretatioM of the law was the correct one. These were the people who' had found twenty centuries back that God came between thorn and their desires. — Rev. S. H. Woollcombe.