N.Z. AND QUEENSLAND COMPARED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 6 February 1907, Page 4

N.Z. AND QUEENSLAND COMPARED.

JXl.i'.Ki.s'lXd FACTS AMI t.„ilhr.s. Mr Angus tlib-on. 11.1..C. yucomhind, who" is now on a oh:-lie tour of New Zealand, accoiupan.e i by in, daughters, is a co.ottist who linu!v be lieves in Ills adopted e-oi.li it.' "I have been through Xe,v Zc-.inY.d be fore.' iar .•marked to a \', ell llgtou I'ost reporter. "It \va, in kWT.'atid both then and now I liml ii a euuntiT of great attraction-. ltd- r,ia ana it-, hot- springs. The Wangenui river and Us rapids, the niaiiv -e ...es ol in terest on Ihe overland IMll-.-. ate at traetions lor (lie toiiri-l. an I in t!;etr uav all IhiiL one could tie if. Int. I 11111-t go somewhere else to irake money. I can't get, away from tne on pinion teat as a moiiev making eon corn Xew Zealand is not, t.. lie com pared with (,hioenslnt:d. (lr,r Uniling Ijowns and our e.iasfal laud are be; I ;cr loan anything I have y , -ecu in' New Zealand.'' (As (|i[aliia a! .on to this hist stnieincul it shoal ! b.- aiii mat .Mr Angus has in t vol h ■: ;i in the South J.-la:.d. "And we h.-.v seen

,--ii- w-ili ioi:ii-t-. and iucfees.,! po puiaritv for them is onlv a nitiiei of a I'lUle wijie. We can j .-.vide -.: cliiuatc to order ai a few |; urs' no pics!, and by .travelling on ~;. -em vertical railwa-y for live hoiiin von can get a temperature as coo] a- V w Z-t land's. No doubt about il. Que'lis land is a highly-favored con .try. in its southern portions you can get everything ,hat is gi'.-wn in New Zee, (ami, and Hi the northern .erritory everything that is grown in India. Coal, silver, tin, lead, wolfram—almanner of minerals minicab e are there. ami considering that I have been a colonist for I'orty-tnur year- I think X am c;i]iable to'sav wfuu the land is like. We can get from the ■surface of Ihe land nearly everything that the world produce,., and there is hardie it mineral nameab'e that we can't 'dig up. The Coverninenl is now pu-hing tlulf of Carpentaria, through a'l-a'sl lerriloiT pioblic of mineral wealth and it is confidently estimated that as a result of this enterprise (.Mn ensland will be supporting a huge population within len yea is front now."