Farming Districts.
NORTH v. SOUTH. "I am a'raid year farmf-rs in the North Island, or a good many] of them at any rate," said a South Island visitor to Manawatu fca the course of a casual conversation,: "are not as much attached to their district as we in the South are. £ see clearing sales of stock almost every day in the newspapers, iha owner having sold his farm. I heaU; of a groat many Taranaki farmers who have sold out and gone to Wai« kato or the King Country. The Southland farmers often go up north! in search ( of miore suitiaMe'farms,, thani those which they already have. But in nearly every case they come back, more than convinced that there is m» district like Southland after all, and the most of them also acknowledge that farming in Southland is superioil to that in any other district which they had visited. In the North Island there is too much swapping of farms for other farms, or fori town properties. I don't care to see much of that kind of business.
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Waikato Times, Issue 12183, 19 September 1911, Page 7
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179Farming Districts. Waikato Times, Issue 12183, 19 September 1911, Page 7
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