MINISTER IN GOLD RUSH
HON. M. F. TROY’S CAREER
For 25 years the Hon. M. F. Troy, Minister of Lands, Immigration and Group Settlement in the Government of West Australia has been a member of Parliament. He is almost the father of the present House there. Yesterday Mr. Troy arrived on his first trip to New Zealand in search of health, and he proposes to see as much of the Dominion as possible. Mr. Troy was born in New South Wales, and left there at 17 to join in the gold rush in Western Australia. “In those days I wouldn’t have taken any of the land as a gift,” he said yesterday. Now he owns a station of 5,000 acres, which is situated in the wheat and sheep country. He said that the once barren gold country now pastures millions of sheep in an area running 600 miles north and south, east and west. Railway lines which 12 years ago were regarded as “white elephants” now carry millions of tons of grain, and are all paying propositions. Mr. Troy would not discuss polities beyond stating definitely that he belonged to a Labour Government.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 569, 23 January 1929, Page 1
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