LOOKING US OVER

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 439, 25 January 1933, Page 6

LOOKING US OVER

AUSTRALIAN POLITICIAN NBW SOUTH WALES COUNTRY PARTY MEMBER IN ROTORUA STUDYING SMALL FARM PLAN Stalwart of the New South) Wales Country Party and member of the Legislative Assembly, the Hon W. T. Ross, aecomp'anied by Mrs. Ross, is visiting Rotorua. Mr. Ross is naturally much interested in the agricultural side of New Zealand and has been improving the shining hour whilstj in the Dominion by inspecting various centres of agriculture for he himself is a pastoralist and farmer interested in wool, meat and dairying. He is to continue his tour of both islands but before he left Rotorua he told a "Morning Post" representative that he had been in, the town in 1919 and h'e was absolutely astonished at the advance made in the town and the district. Particularly was this the case in the condition of the roads which he descnbed as excellent and a credit to the authorities who had them un^er control. Mr. Ross declined to eomment upon the exchange position, remarking that this was really a domestic matter for New Zealand and the political situation met with a similar display of tact. However, he would and did discuss the unemployment position stating that New Zealand was most fortunate in being able to. keep its unemployed off the pernicious dole system of paying without any work. He expressed surprise at the small numbers of men who are tramping the

streets and the roads and comparea this with the conditions in N.S.W. to the latter's disadvantage. Speaking of New South Wales, he said that the wheat growers were in for a good season for there were remarkably fine erops and the wheat output should be exceptionai. Amongst other things Mr. Ross intends to make a comprehensive survey of the Small Farm Settlement Scheme in New Zealand and intends to speak of his observations in the Legislative Assembly on his- return to his home State. Unasked, Mr. Ross paid a tribute to the Press of New Zealand and spoke in such eulogistic terms of the "Morning Post" in comparison with newspapers in similarly-sized towns of Australia that modesty forbids us to print them.