Our Colony Eulogised.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3616, 1 February 1906, Page 2

Our Colony Eulogised.

In the Twentieth Century Farms’", Mr Leffingwell, the American journalist, writes: “Away distant in the Pacific Ocean is a land little known to the present generation, a land where Nature has showered abundant blessings upon the inhabitants. It is an emerald green, clothed the year round in robes of varied green possessing mountains of the grandest character whose peaks are everlasting tipped with snow,, lakes and rivers as clear and placid a > the world possesses, and hills and valley? whose surface suppS?* abundant food for millions of sheeg n id catt 1 e. Warm winds and sunny skies prevail almost throughout the year, and the earth—-a rich volcanic soil —produces a wealth of products not surpassed per acre by any other country. The cereals and the fruits of the temperate '/.one grow abundantly here, and potatoes and turnips are measured by the ton rather than the bnslie'3

. . New Zealand is a land of surprises, surorises without db> appointment. It is unquestionably the beauty spot of the -universe. What one sees in other lands in isolation, here one sees, in prefusion. . . The old saying that

the devil finds plenty of mischief for idle hands to do, does not apply to New Zealand. There are no idle people, none without work.”