NEW ZEALAND'S PROSPERITY.
Sir Joseph Ward, interviewed here, declared the colony was still very prosperous. Prices of wool and meat had been and were still very good; indeed, though there was fluctuation for the moment" in the wool market, the price was 3till very good. The enhanced vaiaes of wool would ultimately be distributed among all classes of the community and would materially add generally to the individual wealth of the colony. Then? was no dearth of employment in the ordinary sense in any part of the colony. They "had only to look at the uausually large number of people using the railways to see everywhere business people or "others on pleasure bent '"'on the move." The revenue was very healthy, and there was nothing ahead to justify the assumption that the existing prosperity was likely to be diminished.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 31, 6 February 1905, Page 3
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139NEW ZEALAND'S PROSPERITY. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 31, 6 February 1905, Page 3
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