New Zealand.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 228, 12 July 1902, Page 3

New Zealand.

A S A 'Tit AN (SLR GEES US. In convm-i .lion last evening with a native of Swe lea who has travelled the best port ■ f >h i civilised world, a representative of this paper heard a glowing account of NT w Zealand. The visitor said he had landed at the Bluff, and the first job he struck was carting grain at 5s p.->r day The farmer gave him a dray thai would hold about twenty bags, and three bits of horses, and the game was one Irad a day lie was thunderstruck. In the States he would bo given twelve horses and t ™ wiggons (one on a trail), and to hi, “N'w, ii —- d n yon, don’t spare the whip, ami be back at dinnertime.” It was »■ eight hour shift in the Stales—work cig it hours before dinner and eight, after. A nun in New Zealand merely hitchel up, turned rotted, and it was dinner time ; he didn’t know what work was. An Am -r'cui far nor getting ten bushels per acre wis lining well; Ivre. they must htv-' forty. Qt c urse work was done differently. There they put in twelve mules and a six fu row plough, and went at it a : h ml as I hey could pelt from sun up to d>rk ; when harvest came along they put in a eoni'nined harvester cut' ingn 50ft nvi'li'’, which five rnen worked—one d ivi -.g, one f tee: ing, and three sewing the bogs—but of ''nr.«e the New Zealand e>i n 1 to d )"’ m't a bnit of thV.

Whoa In got, bit fir-t j ib he got up next m ruing a - 450 n In had Inon us-d to, mo I s/» v m light in the house. Ha wont hank to bod, and kept doing this for three hours. It “hr kehim up,” thh- Hitlri daw of ours. Why, the farm bauds whore ho worked just hitched up, wont out and talked with a neighbour, looked at tho skv, ami it was dinner time. They ploughed two acres a day. FI hi iiself meant to g--t a. hit of land, and he would nut in a six furrow pi nigh and twelve horses and drive them himself for sixteen hours if necessary. The cockatoos, heeonsid- r-;d, were the most ignorant nr nin the wo-Id according to the lei--ii'-e they had ; they simply waited it. Ho had a feir things were ioo good tolas-, but he would take out hit papers and hang on as long as they would. Soma of the settlers got land for 8s per acre that in another country they would pa-.’ £2 for and they said Seddon was a rogue because he did not give them the freehold. They wanted to travel a bit to soo how well off th y w re. In other places then- was no knocking off to light pipes or cut up tobacco, you were paid to woik a d if you didn’t somebody else would. That was the reason so many Americans chewed.

The only drawbick to Now Zealand was that you could not b 'at your way on the railway. Our visitor haa not got got over his surpri-e yet. When ha read about New Zealand’s eight hours day and of tradesmen knocking off half s ‘la- a week It; thought it a “ blazing ; n l now he k ioas it is true he has hardly grasped the fact. But he is not gob gto acb. ertise ; he says he has got a good thing and isn’t going to throw it. round. Meanwhile he thinks New Zealand the host country in the world, and is going to stay right here.