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LAND OF REWARD

FOR CAPITAL AND INDUSTRY. FARMING PROSPECTS IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA. LAND AT 7s 6d PER ACRE. A land of reward for capital and industry, where land may be got for 7s 6d per acre —such is the opinion of Southern Rhodesia held by Mr. E. Wordsworth, who has spent a quarter of a century farming there and who has now retired and come to settle m New Zealand. Southern Rhodesia, said the visitor, had an acreage half as great again as New Zealand. The population' was three-quarters of a million, about 25,000 of whom were whites. The territory included the provinces of Matabeleland and Mashonaland, and lay between the Transvaal and Zambesi ‘rivers.

“The British South Africa Company,” said Mr. Wordsworth, “which has been the chief influence in the administration and settlement of the territory, has two -farms, each of 3,000,000 acres, on which they are grazing about 130,000 cattle. They have bred up from the native stock to Herefords and Shorthorns, and are now cutting out the dairy herds, owing to the absence of a market. About next year, the native stock will be obsolete in these herds. “There is a movement on foot now to import New Zealand shorthorns, and also to introduce Dominion-bred sheep to the B.S.A. holdings. The chief cattle disease —East Coast fever—has now been eradicated by means of the arsenical dip. Farm labor is cheap; Mashona boys may be paid for 15s per month (including keep). Feed is plentiful, being chiefly buffalo grass. The rainfall is about the same as the Riverina wheat belt—24 inches. A number of farmers are now going in for silos, and are conserving fodder, principally maize and mealie, against the periodic dry spells the country has.

“Southern Rhodesia will not join tW» Union,” said Mr. Wordsworth. “The people have been satisfied with the administration of the British South Africa Company, although it has its critics. The present Government is conducted by an executive council, but there is a strong movement for autonomous government, as the country is being rapidly developed and settled. Looking at the conditions existing in other countries, especially since the war, 1 am satisfied that Southern Rhodesia, among the newer countries, offers unlimited possibilities for farming, to those in possession of about .Cl 500 in capital.”

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Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1921, Page 6

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LAND OF REWARD Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1921, Page 6

LAND OF REWARD Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1921, Page 6

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