Development of District.

Standing out, as it to-day does, among the main Counties of the Dominion, the County of Cook has been fortunate in that its successive Councils have administered the area under that control in a progressive spirit. Not only has the district been developed into one of the richest pastoral and farming areas of the Dominion by their own enterprise and endeavors, but they have cheerfully accepted a growing burden of public debt to pave the way for further settlement and development.