MARVELLOUS JAVA.
A GARDEN AS BIG AS VICTORIA. Java very much impressed Colonel Vernon, who has returned to Australia from the East. "It's a beautiful country," he said. "It's about the size of Victoria, aud it contains 32,000,000 people. They have turned it into one huge (garden, by intense cultivation and irrigation. The Dutch Government has carried out the .irrigation works well, and the small holders, it appeared to me, a-ttajid to the smaller streams that bring the water to their rice patches. It's wonderful. Even up to considerable elevations of land, the whole country is irrigated. It's all done by gravitation. There's a verybig rainfall, and the hills are nearly always covered with clouds, and the air is full of moisture, so that water is easily caught, and stored, even on the mountains. "But I don't think the thickness of population is any guide to what we mav have. The natives don't live up to white standards. I should think a great many of them don't do much more than exist. 'Mhe climate is line—on the uplands. T\ here T was it was cool and pleasant, and there was no fever."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 177, 5 November 1910, Page 10
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192MARVELLOUS JAVA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 177, 5 November 1910, Page 10
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