In Conclusion

The reader who has carefully perused the foregoing pages has, no doubt, to a very large extent, formed his own conclusions, but it may be of some small assistance to summarise the issues now, at the stage when his mind has the impression of colonial expansion warm upon it; and in careful and moderate language has had presented to him a scheme which we can say is unparalleled in Australian Colonial enterprise.

A thinking man who reads such handbooks as this, reads others - of other countries; to such we say: Read them all; in the absolute assurance that ours can never suffer by comparison, but may, and no doubt will, gain added lustre in the process.

There are two kinds of men who read such handbooks as this. The man who has made up his mind to emigrate; and the man who weighs up the chances of the Old Country as against the Colonies. To the first kind we would commend the following notes:-

Australia wants you and it is a very comfortable feeling knowing you are going out to a welcome.

Western Australia possesses agricultural land which cannot be surpassed in the whole of Australia.

The Midland Company have selected for their “ready-made” farms some of the richest land in their concession and that means the richest land in the state.

No country in the world offers a finer field farmers than Australia.

Nowhere in Australia is there anything surpassing in quality, convenience, comfort or opportunities for health, wealth and prosperity than the lands, buildings and works embraced by this scheme.

And, therefore, the irrefutable and irresistible conclusion is that -

The whole wide world over, there is no more tempting opportunity than that now available and which we offer to YOU!

To the second kind and the waverer, after commending the above conclusions to him (to whom they are equally applicable), we need only say that, whatever the opportunities open to him in the Old Country, the same effort expended in realization in the Colonies will bring him greater profit while avenues for expansion, undreamed of here, will open before him.

Whoever can succeed in the Old Country, must succeed in Western Australia; and he who does well here must there do BRILLIANTLY.

The Midland Railway Company of Western Australia Limited, A.J. Barber, Secretary. 1st September 1912.