BUMPER SEASON LIKELY

Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1928, Page 1

BUMPER SEASON LIKELY

N.W.S. PROSPECTS BRIGHTER. With an average rainfall this year New South Wales is likely to experience a bumper season according to Hr. S. Wilson, a prominent Australian grazier who is at present on a holiday visit to New Zealand. The present season says Mr. Wilson, is the wettest in the back country since white men set foot in Australia and the driest subsoil has been thoroughly soaked. With an ordinary amount of rain this season the wheat growers are likely to reap good profits 1 for a big crop is already almost assur- i ed. Along the Northern Coast, how- I ever, the recent heavy rains were disastrous, maize crops etc., being washed out to sen. In three weeks the rainfail totalled thirty-three inches,

Mr. Wilson has more than the ordinary amount of praise for New Zealand. The Government he considers, has done wonders in connection with the railay and shipping facilities, eonsiderng the youth of the Dominion. Owing to the generally mountainous conditions of the country, the railway engineers in New Zealand have encountered difficulties and problems that have not arisen in the Commonwealth. “On niv visits to New Zealand I have always found the people anxious to do everything they can for the visitor. Nothing is ever too much form,” remarked Mr. Wilson, who has a proI pertv of 30,000 acres at Wyalong, in central New South Wales. The value I of land in the Wyalong district, except in cases where it is some distance from the railroad is about £8 per acre. And Mr. Wilson is emphatic on one other point. “New fjoutli Wales is the

i- best State in Ihe Commonwealth,’’ ho . declares. “It wifi grow anything. e