QUEENSLAND BOUND.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9113, 12 June 1908, Page 4

QUEENSLAND BOUND.

Queensland, it se2m?, is the El Dorado to which som3 of the young men in this countiy, who possess means, and a knowledge of pastoral and agricultural pursuits, arc turning their eyes. The attractions of the Darling Downs may taice out of this country hundreds of thousands of pounds, and a number of stalwart country settlers, whose departure can be ill sparer". If the movement becomes at all widespread we lvast that it will yet be probative of :pi>j to Una Dominion. If it be or.ly in s ich a way, viz., by the departure of young men and capital from our shores, that the disgraceful inaction of the Government in tir: matter ( f land settlement is forced ho ne upon the minds of the people, then the result of such a convictio-i will probably prove to be p:o!itab!e. I-i face of the fact that there are goodness knows how many millions of acres of land in this country suitable fur settlement and that there are in adcliticn numerous areas adapted to eloper settlement, the Government is calmly watching the migration of the sons of old-time colonists to Australia because they cannot obtain land in their own country at a reasonable price. The position would be absurd if it were not so serious.