LAND SETTLEMENT IN QUEENSLAND.
Per Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. I Amongst the passengers by the Waikare from Sydney to-day was Captain Robertson. The captain was associated with the permanent defence forces in l New South Wales, but is now on the unattached Int.. !l 0 came across to the Dominion partly on pleasure and partly 011 bnsiiiess in the interests of a large land agency rtmipany in Queensland. He told a reporter that a. large number of New Zealanders had settled ill Queensland recently. This he attributed to the high pirces rilling for land 111 New Zealand and the comparatively low price* in Queensland. "Of course.' he added, "we 1 don't gel t lie rainfall vo'i have: still, il is :l:i inches, anil the lan.l is just as good." lie intends inquiring info the land question 111 New Zealand, and contemplates travelling from one end of the Dominion to the other.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 105, 24 April 1908, Page 2
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152LAND SETTLEMENT IN QUEENSLAND. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 105, 24 April 1908, Page 2
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