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Shannon News, 25 July 1922, Page 3

Visitors who come down from the North to visit' Invercargill either on business or merly to have a look around, if they look with observant eyes, are usually impressed with the richness of much of the bottom lands in the. Southland province (says the Southland Times). . One gentleman wiho had come down to look over the district and verify for himself the reports of the fertility of the farm lands was much amused to hear a farmer declare that hei owned 40 acres of land within 20 miles of Invercargill and had on it 35 head of cattle and a couple of hundred sheep. This stock, the farmer declared, could barely keep down the grass. The incredulous visitor frankly expressed his conviction that the man who had made that statement was—well, a descendant of Ananias. But he saw the farm for himself a week later, and even his great astonishment did not prevent him from telling the owner what he had thought, and how mistaken he had been. He finished by saying “I’ve never seen anything like it. What figure do you want?” But there was nothing doing in the selling line, at least so far as 40 acres were concerned.