BEST PLACES TO LIVE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 178, 30 July 1932, Page 10

BEST PLACES TO LIVE

YUKON MINER’S DECISION. RETURNING TO AUSTRALIA. AUCKLAND, July 26. The opinion that, after all, Australia and New Zealand were the best places in tho world .in which to live, was expressed yesterday by Mr. G. O. McGregor, an old Yukon gold miner, of Granville, near Dawson City, who is a through passenger by th c Niagara. Mr. McGregor, who was born at Morangarell, in New South Wales, loft Australia as a young man to seek his fortune in tho 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 tho finest plave in the world for a young man with a bit of money,” he said at the time. ‘‘Opportunity :s boundless. When I have had a look at my old birthplace I am iroirur back.” h Yesterday Mr. McGregor said that al though he was now on his way bark to thc Yukon, he did not intend to stay there for good. “Australia amt Now Zealand are the best places in the world,” he said. “I have met with so much kindness down here. J am an old man now, and when I have sold my interests in the Yukon I shall come bsek to Australia to live, in about two years' time. I might then be much richer than I am now—and I might not.”