LITMIR.BIZ

      Published by Good Press, 2020

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Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       CHAPTER I.

       The Country, the Climate, and the Natural Productions of New Zealand.

       ADVANTAGES OF SITUATION.

       THE NORTH ISLAND.

       NATIVE ANIMALS, BIRDS, REPTILES, FISHES, etc.

       THE CLIMATE.

       CHAPTER II.

       Agriculture.

       CATTLE .

       PIGS .

       HORSES .

       RABBITS .

       CHAPTER III.

       Mining and Minerals.

       GOLD .

       COAL.

       SILVER.

       COPPER, LEAD AND IRON.

       PETROLEUM.

       CHAPTER IV.

       Manufactures and Minor Industries.

       WOOL.

       NEW ZEALAND FLAX.

       KAURI GUM.

       LEATHER.

       TIMBER.

       FURNITURE.

       IRON FOUNDRIES.

       MILLS.

       BREAD AND BAKERIES.

       BREWERIES.

       BRICKS AND POTTERIES.

       FRUIT GROWING.

       RAILWAYS.

       CHAPTER V.

       Social and Political.

       LIFE AND SOCIETY.

       THE QUESTION OF EMPLOYMENT.

       THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF SOCIETY.

       AMUSEMENTS.

       RELIGIOUS CONDITION.

       THE LEGAL PROFESSION.

       THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.

       POLICE AND MILITARY.

       DOMESTIC SERVANTS AND WIVES.

       THE LABOUR QUESTION.

       THE LEGISLATURE AND POLITICS.

       THE END.

PREFACE.

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      These notes are intended to embody, in the smallest possible compass, a description of some of the more important features of the country, trade, and productions of New Zealand. I have also ventured to express some of the conclusions at which I have arrived after several years of varied experience in the Colonies, conclusions which, it will be observed, are generally favourable to New Zealand as a field of enterprise and ​emigration in preference to the other divisions of Australasia.

      I am fully sensible that this work, brief as it is, is not without its shortcomings and defects, but the main object of its pages will be accomplished if it succeeds in correcting some of the mistaken

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