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CANADA AND NEW ZEALAND. [Per Press Association.] Duiiedin, October 2. "[ liavo watched the" development >f Canada for 40 years, arid I have ;6und that'the' main factor of the rapid levelopment of that couritr yhas been he pursuance of a bold'policy of railvay construction, right' ahead of the of the country,"' said Sir Joseph Walton, a member of- the Parlia•icbtfirj* Party" who has * come; across to thorough nvoscigation with regard to the .06ninion. At a luncheon tendered to um to-day at the, Y.M.C.A. rooms, bout 70 representative citizens won 1 uxv.ejit. He advocated not only the' miiding of main lines, but the construction. qf. u feeders, irrespective of vhethei; so, long,as.thoy asisted to the tvunkJines | pay. Tiat was what his observations taught .vei 1 a period, of years, jfl,Canada, In'ia and South Africa. Australia, in : us opinion, needed railway construcion right through every fertile area,. 'ollowcd by a carefully organised sysern of immigration, akin bo that of Canada. The trade of the Empire was noi'3 hound up in railway construcion than any other factor. An agent if the Canadian Government was in wery big city of the Old Country, and ible at once to give full particulars •*o any aspiring immigrant of the land wailablo in any part of the Dominion. The Canadian Government also gave v free grant of 160 acres, enabling < man to start work on his own proicrty the moment he landed. Referring to New Zealand he said hat he regarded the Southern lakes s a scenic asset which he would not 'ail to recommend to any of his friends uul acquaintances, who were a little ilase of European tourist resorts. He mist congratulate New Zealand equalv with Australia on the abolition of he 6d per lb import duty in the Ilnitd States on raw wool. New Zealand ould now send it free to the 90,000,'OO people of the States, just as she

ad always been able to send it to the Motherland. Further, New Zealand vould be able to send meat free to the States, ami there could not be any greater testimony to the free trade system of old England than this new departure in America. The Old Land was not played out, notwithstanding •vhat Mr Chamberlain had said. Trade and commerce had rapidly risen since '902 and the foreign export trade promised this year to be up to £500,000,000, by far the record of the country. Discussing the possibilities of New Zealand; Sir Joseph remarked that Saving free sugar hero we should be : n a very favorable position for going ■n more extensively for fruit-grow-ing and establishing many jam and "anning factories. So far as the question of giving 'amis to immigrants wnp concerned, he nad already learned that mi New Zealand land was at a premium, and that prop irties had changed hards at prices they would consider enormously high even in the OF Country. He could only conclude fiom this hhat farming was a very piosperous business in New Zealand. English neople vievwl \utb interest the system adopted h°re .:f tnilita 'v ■■raining, and while the British as a people wer? opposed lo conscription t.in.e scheme might lie ev.>r>ed to pro •vide a lorce f < r defence nny.