CANADIANS SETTLE IN NEW ZEALAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 292, 1 March 1928, Page 18

CANADIANS SETTLE IN NEW ZEALAND

CHARMS OF CAMBRIDGE Mr. H. Gagen is a former Canadian business man who finds the sunshine of Cambridge more congenial than the winters in the Land of Snow. “I like New Zealand for three reasons,” he confessed to-day, when meeting, in Auckland, Mr. E. R. Lundon, an old friend, and another former Canadian resident, who, incidentally, proposes settling in the Auckland province. “First, I like the people. You New Zealanders are more like our people at Home—l am an Englishman—and you have not the American influence that we see so much of in Canada. In. fact, it is exceedingly difficult to detect a New Zealander from an Englishman. Then, of course, Mr. Gagen likes our climate. Thirdly, though Canada has such impressive scenery, this former resident of Vancouver declares that he prefers the New Zealand variety. “You have an exceedingly beautiful little country, of which you might well be proud,” he says.

But the real reason why Mr. Gagen has settled in the fertile Cambridge district is because he has a son who fought with the New Zealanders in the Great War, farming there. His father became so enthusiastic in regard to tjje charms of New Zealand in general, and Cambridge in particular, that following a visit to the Dominion two years ago, he resolved to make this country his home. Though Mr. Gagen laughingly alluded to himself as “unemployed,” he finds much these days to interest himself in on his son's New Zealand farm.