THE REAL WAY TO PROMOTE SETTLEMENT.

Timaru Herald, Volume LII, Issue 5162, 8 June 1891, Page 3

THE REAL WAY TO PROMOTE SETTLEMENT.

■■ ■ '. i» » The seoret of Failding is twofold. Thoro is the oyetem of settlopiont offorod, and there is the systom on whiob. the settlor works. The e;Btem is to road tho blocks before opening tho land for salo, to offer tho freehold on doforroci payments without any interest or payments of any kind for three years, and to provido work at good wages. Tho men who woro brought out by the Corporation have m ft largo number of instances done well. Thoro is a oaae well known of ono now arrival With fl family who, wlicn ho wiib landod on his block, had just twenty shillingß m hia pockot. Today he owns his forty acres, having paid £3 an aero for it ; ho delights m gardnn (flower and vegetable), house, orchard, and ho is independent of the world. This man begun lifn m tho Old Country ns » farm labourer. Wo may .idd that ono of his sons who omno out with him and began life with him on this section is now the owner of a 300-acro farm. There ore other canes of men who have boon equally successful. 'Ihoy havo had to work hard, tc oxorcino thrift, and to eultivnto ontorprioo, But. thoy hare shown that easy terms of purohnso and partial employment will enable men without any moans at all to become frooholdorß of the soil, independent colonists, producors of wealth, and employers of labor, That is tho result of tho twofold aeerot o( I Foilding, whioh has mado sffih a record m , tho census returns. — New Zealand Times.