CANADA'S GROWTH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 16 November 1912, Page 4

CANADA'S GROWTH.

j Canada is going ahead by leapt- ar " bounds, says a Xew Zealander returned from a visit to Britiin and America. "Xew Zealanders who have not actually seen what is going on there,", he says, "can hive little idea of the position. The tens of thousands of British and American people wlto stream into that Dominion every month are completely changing the face of the country. Towns are springing up cut of the prairies in all directions. In a few years they have populations of from five to thirty thousand people. T met a man. a hosiery manufacturer, who Iras had a practical and eminently satisfactory experience of this characteristic of modern Canada. He wont out on the prairies about ten years ago and bought some land that was then way back in the wilderness. The Canad-ian-Pacific railway made the place a divisional point. Saskatoon wis established there, while the. man T met has become almost a millionaire. This is being brought about by the Government acting with the great railway companies-. The work of constructing the railway lines lias caned an immense sum of money to lie spent. The principal factor in the , development is the free grant of land."