A SWISS SETTLEMENT IN NEW ZEALAND.
The South Australian Register states that “ Mr Ernest Engster, the commissioner of Swiss Court at the Adelaide Exhibition speaks of his vivid recollection of the hospitality and kindness he experienced at the hands of the people of Adelaide, and goes on to say that New Zealand, ‘ with her Swiss-like scenery, silver streams, mountain lakes, snowcapped peaks, green pastures, fertile soil, and her kindred people,’ has charmed him the most. He mentions that he has purchased, on behalf of a syndicate of Swiss gentlemen, a large block of nearly 4000 acres of virgin land in Pukekohe, 30 miles south of Auckland, on the railway to Hamilton. It is intended to survey and sub-divide the block, and then have it settled by industrious farmers, chiefly Swiss. He believed there is better soope for the hard-working, thrifty tillers of the soil in the colonies than in the old country. The new settlement is to be called Helvetia.’
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1029, 11 November 1882, Page 3
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160A SWISS SETTLEMENT IN NEW ZEALAND. Temuka Leader, Issue 1029, 11 November 1882, Page 3
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