FARMERS FOR NEW ZEALAND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3230, 5 November 1881, Page 3

FARMERS FOR NEW ZEALAND.

The deputation which came out to New Zealand last autumn for the purpose of reporting on the state of agriculture, have returned Homo, and express themselves thoroughly pleased with their visit. Mr Edward Herring has already made known some of his views in connection with farming in New Zealand in an agricultural newspaper, and we have no doubt his remarks will lead many British farmers to make up their minds—as he himself has done—to proceed to New Zealand in the spring and settle there. Mr Herring does not advocate a wholesale emigration of English agriculturists. Speaking generally, he says men who cannot invest £1000 ought not to trust themselves and families in the colonies, the present prices of produce being so much lower than in the past; and as to the prospects for general laborers they are not much better. To sum up. Mr Herring is satisfied that both Australia and New Zealand offer every inducement to the sheep and arable farmer of Great Britain, but the moist climate and running streams in New Zealend will always give it the preference in an agricultural point of view. The report which Mr Herring and his associate will make to the body of English capitalists who sent them out will clear up some of the questions left open by the Lincolnshsre delegates, Messrs Grant and Foster, and there is no doubt that when these two documents are studied by the agricultural class throughout Great Britain, that a very large and valuable addition will be made to the English farming element already located in Australia and New Zealand.—Taranaki Herald.