QUEENSLAND'S ATTRACTIONS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 146, 17 July 1909, Page 2

QUEENSLAND'S ATTRACTIONS

ALLEGED EXODUS OF NEW ZEA. LAND FABMEHS. By Tdegraph.-Press Association. „. Christchurch, Last Night. _ the aion. I. lleKnezio does not regard m a very serious light a statement made recently that New Zealand farmers are migrating in large numbers to Australia. He told a. reporter to-day that as far as he knew the farmers wno were leaving the Dominion for the most part were men who had done remarkably well here, and who saw an opportunity in Queensland for making an investment which, if seasons were flood, would givo them splendid returns. ' 1 do not at nil regard the position as an exodus of fanners," he said "It rather points to the fact that there is such an accumulation of internal capital, as, 1 might say, has enabled people to make investment,! in undertakings in other countries. They are not all successful. Another complexion is placed on the question by the circumstances of a gentleman T knew. He strolled on Queensland farms 1 and hoped against hope for four or five years. Finally owing to the drought, he lost his two properties, and really his oiwn life. The following seaso,, proved to be a good one, and money is now flowing into those who have his properties. It is a gamble. ~.„l it j s mh t}me w]|o c . m nflord In gamble who should enter into the game. There does not sA-cm to be snvthing much in, the cry of an exodus; that, at any rate, is my opinion."