PROSPEROUS NEW ZEALAND

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 230, 3 February 1911, Page 2

PROSPEROUS NEW ZEALAND

VICTORIAN POLITICIAN'S COMMENDATION. Auckland, Tuesday. The Hon. J. Drysdale Brown, AttorneyGeneral of Victoria, in the course of a conversation with a Star representative prior to his departure by the Maheno for Sydney, said he had spent a month's holiday in the Dominion, and everywhere lie had been the same marked signs of improvement had appealed to him. "Throughout New Zealand,' he said, "the people seem to me to be happy, healthy, and hopeful, and there is every reason why they should be in such a well-favor-ed country. New Zealand is developing on the right lines, too. There is no cm° gestion 111 your cities. You are following a wise course in closelv settling the country districts, and \vhen one" sees what can be done on small areas in the I. 1 ls,aml with dairying and fruitglowing, as well ns wool on the poorer class of land, one knows that New Zealand's prosperity is based on the best foundation and that its development is assured. When in Hawke's Bay I spent a considerable time in going through the fruit districts, and also paid a visit to the Lrimley orchards. There is no doubt that the Dominion possesses an industry of great potentialities in fruit-growin" and with the development of the export trade it should be a great thin* for New irrnnf f'r , In t Vic , tori '' l we are making h eat efforts to further the progress of the fruit industry. While in Hawke's liay I was shown one fruit farm of tiftv srV' vafa ! ]ier amii,i * J™ la =V'! ftr l , roturnetl a clear i' rofi t of £ISOO. That shows that there is money n the undertaking. I was also much interested i„ what, the Agricultural Department is doing in this direction to encourage and educate settlers. Altoon v'L" ! "T feCt '- V satisflert that Me onh has to make a tour such as I have made to get an ample refutation of the statement that a Socialistic form of Government m New Zealand has not been successful. I am quite convinced from my observations that the Dominion is a 7°? d Col "*try to live in, and that it is being governed on the right lines."