FARMERS MIGRATING TO AUSTRALIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2557, 19 July 1909, Page 5

FARMERS MIGRATING TO AUSTRALIA.

HON. T. MACKENZIE’S VIEWS. [Prcu Pur.sa Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, July 17. ...The Hon. T. Mackenzie docs not regard in a very serious light the statements made recently that New Zealand farmers are migrating in large numbers to Australia, life told a reporter that, as 'far as he knew, the farmers who were leaving the Dominion, for the most part, were, men who had done remarkably well here, and who saw''an opportunity in Queensland for making investments which, if the seasons were good, would give them splendid returns. “I do not at all ..regard the position as anexodus of farmers,” he said. "It rather points to the fact that there is such? an accumulation of internal capital, as I might say,; that it has enabled people to make investments in undertakings in other countries. They arc not all successful. Another complexion is placed on the question by. the circumstances or -a gentleman I knew. He struggled on Queensland farms, and Imped against hope for four, or live years. Finally, owing to drought, tic lost his two properties, and really ins own life. The following season proved to bo a good one,-and money is now flowing into those who have his properties'. It is a gamble, and it is only those who can afford to gainblo who should enter into the game. There does not seem to be anything much in the cry. of a new exodus. That, at any .rate, is my opinion.”