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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 277, 23 March 1889, Page 2

A tradesman who has just returned from Melbourne, in giving his experience to the Lytileton Times, says;—l met hundreds of New Zealanders there, and only one of them was glad he left New Zealand; the others all wanted to come back. As an example, I may mention one man who had left a situation here at £4 a week, aud told me he would gladly take £2 10s a week now rather than endure the intense heat of Melbourne. New Zealand has a grand name now in Melbourne. The Argus has a weekly letter from here, which pictures our climate and soil in glowing colors. The grand harvests we are having contrasts so strongly with the miserable returns the land gives there that lhe people are always congratulating New Zealanders on having such a country, and wondering what could have induced them to leave it. The fact is the Victorians have found that constantly praising their resources has resulted in such an influx of capital and population that they cannot understand how we could have been to foolish as to have persistently decried bur position. It is time that New Zealanders realised the fact that they have baen standing in their own light