MASSEYDONIA.

Observer, Volume XL, Issue 11, 15 November 1919, Page 2

MASSEYDONIA.

Come Over Here

THE cry has gone forth across the water, "Come over into Masseydonia and help us," and it the gentlemen, who are more scared of losing their jobs than of losing their country, are good enough to permit the Dominion to be inhabited, it may be so sooner or later. There is not the slightest doubt that even the slowest minds among the politicians foresee for New Zealand a great era of work, improvement, expansion, and comfort. The people are even talking about road-making, a new idea, engendered by the extensive use of oil vehicles on the highways. • • • The Government is already "singing out" that there are not enough men in the country to do the necessary public works, and "fears" that public works will be robbed of hands at shearing and harvest time. It might have been put another way, "We fear men won't leave public works to shear the flocks and get in the harvest, ,1 the vital industries without which there would be no necessity for public works. The whole country is crying out for houses to live in—and those who are fortunate to have a house to live in have to pay exorbitantly for the privilege. • • * An English agriculturist in New Zealand, to assess its suitability for a largely increased population of British people, has remarked that he considered the position in New Zealand in regard to the price of land was very serious. The capital price of land in England had not gone up in anything like the proportion it had in New Zealand. The finest agricultural land in England Trae not worth more than £100 an acre. • » • A New Zealand agriculturist, to whom this remark was shown, justified tlie high price of New Zealand land on the ground that the climate was perfect, and that the British

markets were open all-the--year round, but it will be hard jfco convince large numbers of immigrants, who are aching for the prosperity which we shall tell them is here, that the price is based on the productive value, and not on the "shark" value. . V

own blood want him, and want him badly, not only as a necessity of commerce, but as a necessity of safety. We want to «ay to him, "Gome over into Masseydonia and help vs —and we will help you."