MATTERS IN AUSTRALIA.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 935, 30 September 1910, Page 8

MATTERS IN AUSTRALIA.

'«• A NEW ZEAiANDEK'S EXPERI- • ;7'-.vIy'NCES. The subj'etV of leaving wps touched . upon by Mr. A. Macintosh (superintendent in New Zealand;for Dalgety and Co.) in an interview yesterday with a 'DOsiuiiON repi-esoritative. , Mr. Macintosh , has'",a goodXlcnowledgo of; the big country across tliß Tasman, and ho is emphatic that for some time now. Mpafo farmers have Been going' l New Zealand. One idea concerning this matter his notice was' that when' X.big aVett>of<laua>was being cut up 'into 'Shiall farm's* iiil&M' from . Australia would most likely vist. New. Zealand and find, out rural people, who were. willing land. jThose New ZeaTanders- who had gone' over generally did well, he thought. Quite a number -.of ■ well-to-do people of this Dominion had invested money in agricultural property .in .-/Australia. ,He also: remarked. that when'' people 'irentf 'itCrosS Ifrom'"hereto Australia. it was .generally to take up freehold, land./.tHe . was ,of,- the. opinion 'that.the thought'of.starting'afresh in a new- and a strange country deterred many from going. .•. ' '"•*' ;Spealdng of Australia as \ an agricul-. tural..:couutryi«Mr.- •; observed that there were. 'Many kinds of climate and' land to', be found there. The soil was: much', superior to Now . Zealand's, * : biit ; flur, cliniafejVas;" §o'jnftidh;: better that it ■ "at> least'-quite mjuahsed'-matters. If could -have/an even climate |-,with seasons.' of^tho'.best: it 'would be the; iudsfc.,\vpiidorfiir;Jlaiidl iii j tlio'. world. There good seasons were remarkably ; prolific, and'thero' bad .ones/ were 'disastrous," but ;the:.'favourable//gears';'TOreJsojgood that tthey\Co'uld..affordi'tlie.':bad : :.o'nes;r He /considered that New South Wales ,ijsas}.prosperous, ; ..and said; that, the growth-, and; spjid,i aridj af.great deal! of New, Zealand mffidy '/was;/lie continued.invested in-station - property. He Was of : the i opinion that; .the: hopes - of a splendid iseason-agriculturallylwould -be realised. . .