A VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS.
(special to "the tkess/') Januaiy 28. Among the visitors now in Wellington is the Hon. Geo. Collins, who has been spending a holiday in New Zealand. Mr Collins holds "the portfolio of Oniet I Hecretary and Minister of Agriculture 'n Sir Elliott Lewis's Tasmanian Cabinet, and iintil the Federal (lovernanent absorbed t-h-s ■duties lie was also Defenw Minister for Tasmania. He a.ni his family ppent. a fortnight in tho Kouki Island before coming on to Wellington. He speaks in glowing terms of ipraise of all that, he has seen in Ot-aigo and Canterbury. He found the cold lake region liefreshing and beautiful the eighte even eurpaseing tLe descriptions he had been given of Lake WaJiatapu ac a resort for tourists. This trip, he thought, was bound to prove a very great attraction t< Australian visitors. Visitors were also well attended v« during the trip/ Mr Collins was greatly impressed with the wonderful resources of all the land he had seeji in the south right through into the back cwmt-ry, and all along tlie line of ilie Btiiff to* Lytteiton. There were not only wonderful crops in eight, but also an abundance of feed. As one trho tras especiaJly interested in agricultural and pastoral matters, the visitor made a point of observing these things. He also noticed that the southern stock was not only in tuie b>e«t condition, but they werea really excellent class of animal, especially the dairy eatu«. Th«« is, he considers, a givati aimi'larit-y between Xcw Zealjtnd «uid ■ Tasmania, but Zealand's crops of wheat and oats are better and bigger than those of the Australian. State. He "attributes this to our greater and more reguiA , rainfall.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11494, 29 January 1903, Page 3
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281A VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS. Press, Volume LX, Issue 11494, 29 January 1903, Page 3
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