HAPPY' NEW SOUTH WALES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 558, 13 July 1909, Page 9

HAPPY' NEW SOUTH WALES.

"They are- having a glorious time," said Mr. A. H, Miles, resident partner for Messrs. Hurray, Roberts, and C 0. ,, when questioned as to how things wero in New South Wake, from which State- he has just returned to Wellington. "Therohave been record good rains all over the Stato, and the reason jnst'closed has been cmo of the bwt on record—for exports probably the best—and I- learned 'frem verv authentic sources that the money was rolling in. * It is perhaps tho greater contrast made by such a condition of things that makes Eomo people over there look rather askance at New Zealand. [Everything is promising well in New South Wales for v noxt season, which will probably break all records."/ ' •

. But haven't they felt the drop in wool? ■ ''Oh; the- wool, has never been so bad as was made out. It's 'on a very good basis now. You would think so if you saw some of the cheques wo pay out to the farmers. For tho best classes of wool lid., Is., Is. Id., and oven Is. 2d. per lb.—fine prices. Unfortunately, perhaps, ,wo were getting to regard phenomenally good prices as normal, and tho littlo set-back which did occur has not been without its lessons. In tho caso of New South Wales everything is flourishing—crops of all wirts, and plenty of feed for the winter.

"Building in Sydney is progressing rapidly—great structures are ' being erected everywhere the cyo' reste in tho oity, and the suburbs are stretohing out into tho country at a great rate. Sydney is destined to be a great city, and it should certainly bo the capital of the Commonwealth."