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away from it, they can always get remunerative work and earn money 

 to spend on their own land. Fowls are being turned to account ; 

 bees are not kept, but they would do well if properly attended to, 

 i.e., this had been proved. From our experience and observation 

 the chief requisites for a new settler are to have means to employ 

 labor and to be able to get it. Men with energy, who can and will 

 work steadily and with judgment not your eight hours per day 

 men, who think more of pleasure than of work, and spend 

 all their earnings in beer need have no fear of failure 

 to get employment in our part of the colony. The lessons 

 of local experience in the clearing and treatment of the land 

 are to clear well and to cultivate thoroughly. The best fertilisers 

 have been found to be farmyard manure and bone dust ; liberal 

 manuring from the outset is profitable. There are not many large 

 privately owned estates that would be available for subdivisional sale, 

 or for occupation under improvement leases, and there is not much 

 demand for them. In response to your invitation to make suggestions 

 for the guidance of new settlers, we are of opinion that it is no use 

 giving advice, as those to whom it is tendered generally take their 

 own course, and in the end come to the ideas of those around them 

 of older local experience." 



