DESIRABLE IMMIGRANT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5224, 9 January 1928, Page 2

DESIRABLE IMMIGRANT.

GRIT AND SELF-SACRIFICE.

EXAMPLE IN THE KING COUNTRY.

A striking example) of grit and selfsacrifice on the part of a public school, boy who came to New Zealand some two years ago came under the notice of a representative of the King Country Chronicle recejntly. Owing to the war his father fell on- evil days in the Mother Country. His college career was cut short, and he came to New Zealand to learn farming. He was willing, intelligent, and' put his whole soul into his, work, and out of his small salary managed to send his people a substantial sum in the first 18 months. He eventually obtained a situation- on a large sheep run in the King Country, it being one of his ambitions to learn all about this branch of farming. Conditions with his people at Home became worse and he sacrificed his ambition ami took a situation on a dairy farm in the Waikato, where the wages were higher, his .sole object being to help his people still further. The young man is now working 16 hours a day, and sacrificing his prospects for the future. If New Zealand can obtain a few hundred young men of this stamp from Britain they are going to be one of the country’s most valuable assets.