A BRIGHT STORY FROM AUSTRALIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10012, 7 April 1910, Page 4

A BRIGHT STORY FROM AUSTRALIA.

Each week the Government Agencies in London are learning that emigration, once established, rolls itself along. An interesting case has just I come under the personal notice of [ an Australian press correspondent, who writes: —"The proprietor of a thriving little butcher's shop at Hampstead, to whom I have talked ahout the retailing of Australian mutton, stopped me as I was the other morning and asked if I knew anything about Queensland. His brother, who went out last year to the northern State, has just written advising this man to follow him. The brother's htter wsuld have made glad the heart of any homeloving Australian. His statements would have almost put to the blush the most optimistic emigration agent, ris story was so bright that his

brother, the butcher, almost doubled him and I was Dilea ior corroboration. was it poßsiDie tnat the brother, who had gone out with only£so, could have got along so quickly? And was his brother right in sayine that he had seen no poor in Queensland? That was the point that stuck This butcher at Hampstead, a suburb remarkably free from what London considers poverty, could not bring himself to believe thac there was anywhere in the world a place which did not h'lvj its poor. After all, "poor" is a comparative term. Doubtless there are some needy people in Brisbane; but to anyone used to the destitution in the East End and elsewhere in England and Scotland and Ireland, the lot of the most unfortunate in Queensland must appear comfortable. This new chum, writ ing in Queensland midsummer, spoke with delight about the climate. That is the attitude of the average Englishman towards heat. He is not a bit afraid of sunshine. Tell him of a land in which he sees the sun every day, and you are presenting to him the land of his dreams, he never becomes reconciled to his long nights and his grey days. The Hampstead butcher, who is a young man with a family, is now in touch with the Queensland Government. '1 suppose,' he said, 'that a man with £SOO or £6OO in cash could do pretty well out there.' Every immigrant , landed and successful becomes an agent of the best kind."