NO FALSE PROMISES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 39, 9 May 1927, Page 8

NO FALSE PROMISES

NEW ZEALAND TRUTH IN LONDON OFRQ “I received no false promi» from the New Zealand High Co*, missioner's office when I mads in' quiries about farming in y/ Dominion,” was one of the remark! made yesterday by a young mer, Mr. R. Griffin, who arrive, on the Arawa. That the English farmer was B , better off under the old landlord n tern, was one of the opinions ;i. pressed during the course of a daMr. Griffin has arrived with his and family of four children and - mother to take up farming i„ j* Zealand. He has been on the n. all his life in England, but conditio have reached such a state there a he feels he can do better u, Ti Dominion. “I have little faith in farmirr in England_for the next 10 years," he said. “The country is with foreign goods, and pricts an too high.” Mr. Griffin farmed 400 acres of la in Northamptonshire, which he lea* from a londlord. Since the war have gradually' risen, he said, and t day the cost of labour is very u,' People are very' sorrry to see the , English homes disappearing, continj, Mr. Griffin, but rents and taxee t so high that many of the owners big properties have had to dispose them. Speaking of information given l by the High Commissioners in Lo n( .: Mr. Griffin said that the New Ze landers rang true. He had corner plated going to Australia, but *),„ he was told that he would make fortune within a few years of landt he decided that New Zealand was better proposition. Mr. Griffin has capital of his or and proposes to work on farms «*• he has gained sufficient local lao*. ledge to take up one of his own.~