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ANONYMOUS JONES
AUSTRALIAN EMIGRATION NEWSLETTER #46
ON THE BEACH IN AUCKLAND
Some of the sheep mentioned in AJAEN #37 live on the beach in
Auckland, a city in New Zealand that is about the size of
Charlotte, North Carolina, but is built on top of old volcanoes
instead of old gold mines. Sometime back in the eighteenth
century, Auckland was more or less bought from the more or less
native Maoris for $110 cash, 50 blankets, 20 shirts, 20 pairs
of trousers, 100 yards of cloth, 10 waistcoats, 10 caps, 20
hatchets, a bag of sugar, a bag of flour, 10 iron pots, 4 casks
of tobacco and a box of pipes. The folks doing the buying were
the Dutch, who usually struck a better deal, but had been
hard-pressed by rising land values south of the equator, and
by inflationary forces which had driven real-estate prices up
since their earlier purchase of Manhattan Island from the North
American indians. Today, despite its odd name, Auckland is an
okay place to live (if you like sheep on your beaches), but
can't really compare with Perth, an Australian city on a beach
which is the new home of the America's Cup, and which keeps its
sheep properly hidden away on inland pasturelands. With all due
respect to our worthy associates, the NEW ZEALAND APPRECIATION
NEWS, take our advice; VISIT New Zealand, but EMIGRATE to
Australia. You'll be glad you did.
(C) 1986 by Anonymous Jones. All comments are welcome. Leave
them in the <C>omments Message Base addressed to ANONYMOUS JONES.