THE CHARMS OF QUEENSLAND.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9135, 2 May 1908, Page 8

THE CHARMS OF QUEENSLAND.

Per Press Association. Auckland, April 80. A correspondent, writing to the Herald, strikes'a blow at the efforts being "made to induce New Zealand farmers to emigrate to Queensland. He gives the following experience he had on the Northern Wairoa: —The other day I was, he says, conducting a southern ruuholder round the district, and he had mentioned to me a d'esire to go and see Queensland, as he had heard so much about that country- At the time I was taking him to see a property belonging to a man who had been in Queensland, and'had “turned it down.” I suggested that he should make some enquiries from-, this ex-Queenslander, and this was tlie nature of the conversation : “I understand you wore farming in Queensland?” “Yes.”

“There is very fine land there?” “Yes, probably batter than anything you have got in New Zealand. Deep rich black soil, 30ft or 40ft deep. Yon could wish for nothing better —nothing in the world.” “May I venture to ask, then, why you preferred New Zealand?” “Yes, because I would rather wheel sawdust at the mill down yonder at Gs a day than live in such a climate. ” This was the statement of a man in affluent circumstances, who owns a large estate carrying a thousand each of cattle and sheep. He owned a fine property on the Darling Downs, and when he could not sell it ho leased it and came away, and added that he would have left the property anyhow rather than stay there. What he said was this “Eor about five months in the year during autumn and winter the sun shines out as brightly as in an Indian sky, without a cloud, but every morning a high wind gets up, and you have positively to wear an overcoat to keep yourself warm. This is not an occasional occurrence. It happens every day, and life is a misery. Then the summer--well, it is anything from very warm to something else, and just what most people hope to avoid.”