Some readers vf these notes may recall the story of an indignant crowd which tarred snd kapokked'
journalist charged with trying to destroy confidence in a firm which was busily engaged establishing a fruit settlement on the Murray river. There was little sympathy felt for the victim of the libels, as he had earned the name of being a "smart Alick."? He did much aeroplaning, chiefly for the sake of advertisement. He wanted the west Australian Government to help him, but was refused. With financial thunder-clouds lowering-he was allowed to visit America, and now we are told of the results. He has borrowed £275,000 at & per cent., repayable in ten years. He claims that this will cover al] liabilities; and leave him much to go on with. De Gaus, the principal person concerned, may happily rank with the pioneers who have risked everything in making two blades of grass grow Where before there was but one. He is not the first to stake his against the hatred of the—_class-conscious Labour politicians, or that indeterminate objection, known in the mid-Victorian era—"He is not County." T told the story of De Garis's flight from west to east in Australia: also from Brisbane to Melbourne, north to south, but to-dav T am telling of his greatest achievement, namely, the restoration of faith in his close settlement scheme of Kendenup in Western Australia. He has risked everything: the returned soldiers have risked everything; and so far as can be known at present yet another land-settlement scheme will succeed This is, of course, entirely independent, of Government schemes, but it is an inducement to private enterprise to take its own lines of progression
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