DOMINION PROSPERITY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1826, 12 August 1913, Page 4

DOMINION PROSPERITY.

AN AUSTRALIAN APPRECIATION. "In New Zealand, Mr. -Massey's Ministry steadily grows in strength," says tlie Australian journal "Life," in its issue of August 1, "and many causes contribute to this result, _not. t|io least being tho tact and skill.which Mr. Massoy himself brings to the duties of his office as Prima Minister. Mr. Allen's success in London, and tho impression he made 011 British public opinion, is another valuable political as-, set, ana strengthens the Cabinet. ( The Massey Cabinet is happy, again, in the condition of its opponents. Tho Opposi-" ticin is still without an effective Leader, for no o«io can easily fill the place of Sir Joseph WaTd. Tho general prosperity of tho Dominion continues rit n high level, and the New Zealand system of closer settlement is proving itself to bo tho most successful experiment of tlio kind yet tried.. In a single year no leas thaai BG4 'original' .holdings lvav« been cut up into 228G forms of 230 acres each, and each of tho subdivisions has a settler upon it. The , Ministry is placing on the market, in addition, 111,818 acres of Crown lands, divided into 351 holdings. Tho Lands Purchase Board has an arexi of 125,500 ae«s ready for settlement during tho financial year. The oreation of a solid and prosperous class of small landowners must strengthen and enrich New Zealand; and New Zealand geography, it may bo added, is favourable ro the oreation of such a cla&s. No inland point is at a hopeless distanco from any port." ,