"Farming is going ahead in. South Africa," said.Mr. A. Matheson who has just returned from South Africa, to a Palmerston "Times" reporter, "and there is no reason why tho country should not have a great agricultural future. Closer settlement is gradually ridding the land of the numerous pest 6 such as locusts, mosquitces, and flies, with whic'h farmers havo always had groat trouble to oontend." In reply to another question, Mr. Matheson said that tho Government did not encourage immigration. Its aim was to put the poor Dutch on the land first.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2681, 29 January 1916, Page 15
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