GOOD SETTLERS LOST

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 319, 8 July 1912, Page 6

GOOD SETTLERS LOST

[;(>• -[,[ ...(-v ' ..M ,! I- • —f .|_ Mil,' II -r .|ir. r •li ii-i, -ii - .<n ";.-i i,;,ii*f ~i • .. •! / : ,f . 'nl.l '<;> - ■ 1 ■ '■■■: ff. -of nA'iclilaiwl'f Juiy.-a. . ] i 1 Whivf'iS' N-ow Ze»litnd Jilif? What, is 'tho-'prlce -of «rfwd;'l;tnd:?., Arft ,tjie .railways nefir'? •'VRion>Var«i> the markets-? I fjn infbrniafion tmiean? 'ThesO''faere fnsfc'a,| low of tlny'irtaify Questions' asked of- Aj Herald representative ort'board the Makuxa just before'she Sailed'for Hyd"n«y.| The cnfinirrrs were ! €an!idiiin fanners, with tickets, to .SyiJ/iOy hnd' Melbourne, but they luiil been impressed, with '.Auckland, and fiojn stray'bits of information they had gathered Qia,t Xe.w Zealand was a • line country. " In. ,fact, three men —i i,me \Vfth ji, family, of four} were i|iiite wir]J.ii)g tQj before sailing' if the (Joyernmeut o(ii<-ial* could convince lliem that they would bei able to purchase'suitable; land, with a neighboring market and a, reasonable chance for their, children. Unlike thej practice in Canada and in certain of.thij Australian States, there' was no one t<f tell them;'jio bov dviii to hand them sif pamphlet sotting forth the advantages of New Zealand,' ■'That's not business" said one of them with which statement' 'the pressman wa.reluctantly compelled to agree. Further evidence of their keenness was shown by one noting the address of the Xew Zea land office 'lll Melbourne. "T certainly think there ought to someone to meet these bouts," said one of them, "and talk 'over the advantages of New Zealand." 1