PUBLICITY IN CHINA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 812, 5 November 1929, Page 16

PUBLICITY IN CHINA

FORMER NEW ZEALANDER DOES GOOD WORK SETTLERS AT KERIKERI New Zealand is well advertised at Tientsin, in the north of China. The proprietor of the Court Hotel there is Mr. L. A. L. Moore, formerly of Wellington. He has been there for the past 12 years, and never loses an opportunity of retailing the charms and prospects of his native country. Mr. D. Ferguson, a retired civil engineer, who arrived in Auckland this morning by the Maheno, said that Mr. Moore has been responsible for many Britishers who are now leaving China making their way to New Zealand. Mr. Ferguson is one of the first white British subjects to arrive from China to take up his section on the Kerikeri Estate, in the Bay of Islands. This estate of 7,000 acres has been subdivided, nd will be settled by men who are leaving China. The landholders propose to grow citrus fruits and other products there. China was in such an unsettled state, said Mr. Ferguson, that even people on the spot had some difficulty in following the changes of government and authority. The Chinese Empire was so vast that millions could be wiped out without people in other parts knowing anything about it. This year, millions had died in the north-west. Conditions were being made so impossible that foreigners were leaving the country. England’s prestige had been lowered considerably, and Mr. Ferguson did not think she would ever regain it. A tremendous amount of British capital was invested throughout the Chinese Empire. Trade with England was still good, but concessions were being made in an effort to obtain more. Mr. Ferguson said that he knew of 15 to 18 Englishmen in China who were coming to New Zealand to take up land at Kerikeri.