HIGH LAND VALUES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1336, 13 January 1912, Page 8

HIGH LAND VALUES.

SCOTTISH COMMISSIONER'S VIEWS. Ono of tho Scottish Fanning Commissioners (Mr. J. Dunlop) who visited Australia and New Zealand recently in the course of a lecture at Glasgow remarked that Australia and New Zealand offered great variety in" farming. Thoso with means, and who wished an easy life, could go in for sheep farming, at which money was being coined, or cattle and liorso ranching. Grain and fruit growing had also their fascination's, but surer branches of farming were dairying or sugar-growing in the droughtleja districts, of which there were a number in Australia, or mixed farming (sheep and grain), or sheep and dairying, and stock and horse breeding,. all of which wofo very remunerative in'.New Zealand at the present lime. The lecturer dwelt at length on tho attraction and prospects of each branch of farming. The great bar to progress in both Australia and New Zealand in the past had been the difficulty of getting land. This question was being grappled with in both countries, and great progress might be expected. From New Zealand, Which had millions of acres of ■ undeveloped : and unoccupied land, young men were leaving for Australia to seek land, only to find there hundreds of applicants for 1 every good block. In the older sottlcd 1 districts of both countries there was a land boom on, and prices were being paid for land at which he could soo littlo prospect of return. Land values wero cheaper in Scotland•' and England.