Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1921. A REAL EMERALD ISLE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2253, 19 March 1921, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1921. A REAL EMERALD ISLE.

Mr. SUDDEN, a breezy York.■'hiroman ami raev conversationalist, who is at present louring New Zealand in the course oT a journey round ihe world, is very much impressed with this country. Asked by a Southland News reporter what his object was in visiting the Dominion, his reply was that he wanted to learn its geography. He had been in Australia three months, and had covered a good deal of. territory. He had heard a lot of the wide uninhabited spaces in the Commonwealth, but one had to visit it to fully realise the possibilities it presented. Coming to New Zealand he arrived in Wellington and went south, and on arriving in Canterbury found that we had a beautiful climate which had not tost its reputation as he went further south. For the farmer he added: "New Zealand is the place. I am going to the North Island, and if filings are its good as here, well, when I return to the Old Country I will have something to tell the people. It is a real emerald island, well watered with plenty of sunshine.” Speaking as to the possibility in the near future of New Zealand getting more British immigrants than in the past, Mr Sugden said: “You have been handicapped in the past, because you are a long wav off, and to get here by steamer lias been difficult, but,” said our visitor, “Canada is out of' it owing to its long winter. There have been in the past very cheap fares, no end of advertising and keen shipping competition, which have played into the hands of Canada, hut there has been great disappointment, and the people of England who want to settle overseas are looking elsewhere.” He knew of Englishmen who had gone to Canada attracted by the rosy reports, and who soon .wanted to get back, some of whom were tied to the country, and they could not do so. Much as he had been told of New Zealand, Mr Sugden said, there had been no exaggeration, and as he stepped on to the train he remarked that he would do all he could to induce English immigrants lo turn their attention in this direction.