BEST PLACES TO LIVE

Taranaki Daily News, 28 July 1932, Page 7

BEST PLACES TO LIVE

YUKON MINER’S DECISION. RETURNING TO AUSTRALIA. The opinion that after all, Australia and New Zealand were the beet places in the world in which to live, was expressed by Mr. G. 0. McGregor, an old Yukon gold miner, of Granville, neai Dawson City, who passed through Auckland on Monday. Mr-. McGregor,- who' was born at Morangarell, in New South Wales, left Australia as a young man to seek his fortune. in the Yukon. Last May he passed through Auckland on the way to visit the place of his birth, after an unbroken absence of 34 years. “The Yukon is the finest place in the world fbr a young man with a bit of .money,” he said at the time. ’•'Opportunity is boundless. When I have had a look at my old birthplace I am going back.” Yesterday Mr. McGregor said that although he was now on his way back to the Yukon, he did not intend to stay there for good. “Australia and New Zealand are the best places in the world,” ,he said. “I have met. with so much kindness down here. I am an old man now, and when I have sold my interests in the Yukon I shall conic back to Australia to live, in about two years’ time. I might then be much richer * than Ihm now—and I might not.”