UNITED SOUTH AFRICA.
A HOPEFUL OUTLOOK.
By 'Telegraph—Press Association. CHUISTCjHURCH, October 16. Mr W. T. -Anderson, one of the . South African delegatea to the Commerce Conference, has a most hopeful story tell of United South Africa. He declares that there will never be another white war in South Africa, and the union precludes any possibility o£ friction. Speaking of the country generally he says that it has picked up wonderfully since the war and the prospects are brighter than many peuple expected. Mr Anderson was a pioneer of th 3 diamond in dustry, in which he retains considerable interest, and he prophesies renewed prosperity for both diamond and gold industries. Speaking, yesterday of agriculture hi said that steady progress was being made, and here was a vast area of land to be exr plotted. Last seasjn had betn the best for twenty or thirty .vearF, and the best proof of the success of the , •agriculture of the 'country lay im the fact that hardly any fiuzen meat had been imported. Of late years the flocks had increased enormously, and in Cape Colony there were now nine million sheep, while when the war had finished there were hardly a million. The' Orange Riyer Colony was the richest farming land, and the G*pe and the Transvaal all went in for cultivation to a large extent. The Karoo,, which looked like a desolate tract,, grew a shrub which was very fattening for sheep, and the Dutch farmer?,, who held most of the' land, simply sat back while their stock grew and grew. The rindecpest could now. j be coped 'with, and provided the rainfall was good there was
nothing but prosperity for the pastoralists. Cereall crops were easily grown near the sea in Cap 3 Colony and Natal, where the soil wa&especlally fertile, and fruit and maize were produced in great quantities. More immigrants were going, to Rhodesia than: ©ver before,, and the land, besiides being good for farming, was full of gold, which was worked in pockets by small miners,, who cleared handsome profits. lie considemiuiiat the State would go ahead by leap 3 and b)unds. The land was very cheap, and the Chartered Company, besitfys providing .very easy transit on the railroads, . employed men advised the new farmers what; to grow* and then arranged for their crops to be placed !on the market at a satisfactory price. The Chartered Ccrapany had done; a great deai for tha pbee, and th<s land was railed and for or iipalion up to COO milea past* the 1 Victo ia F; 110.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9625, 18 October 1909, Page 5
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