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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 71, 10 August 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)

Any Xcw Zealaudor having some time to spun; cannot do bettor than take a trip ii]i the Queensland coast as far as Cooktown. staying sor lasta! towns, also going west. Dy ran. ..y doing so much information may be obtained about a country whose climatic conditions are totally different to those in New Zealand, and problems which in the future are fornix to cause some trouble to solve may be studied. Queensland the south part of Queensland seems to defy all efforts to eradicate. This '•pear" is a cactus., bearing a (lower, which in turns bear's the pear, that is full of seeds. liinls eat the pear when ripe, and the seeds are scattered all over the country. If a leaf is dropped on the pa-omul it will take root. Thousands of acres of lirs't-class land are now overrun by the pair, which the writer has seen growing so thickly than a man or an animal could not get through it. Land that is overrun with prickly pear is no good for grazing or cropping:. Unless the pear can be cleared off the land is as good as lost. "These sons are mine: and this wealth is mine," savs the fool. He himself is