CORRESPONDENE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 144, 26 May 1883, Page 2

CORRESPONDENE.

LOCAL INDUSTRIES.

(TO TJiB" EDITOR OF THE STINDABDi V I ajn veTy pleased to note the prominence given through your columns to the question of manufacturing"industries. The wealth- of any community is the value of the e^port v ,and^thejwoEtn, of'ttie individual to the State is the value of his surplus products or, his power Jo enh an cc. thejf aloe. jpf^anpjtj^6.r!cL productions. Granted that thisTdistrict" is rich m raw material, ainjl cheap motive power, combinrd with a judicious outlay^of capital, anct the wea,lthof. sp;fh I a district becomes an assured fact. The first item of our raw material, to which J would direct' attention is wool. A company with a capital of £20,000 could be started for tha manufacture of this into blankets, flannels, and yarns. This latter item, yarns, ie one that 'will?be m great 7 demand by the larger mills of New Zealand, yarns being at all times a marketable article. Also when it is born m mind that colonial flannel at eighteen pence per yard is better value than any that you can import to sell at the same price, and shewing the same profit,' it will bVseVsri what'a wide field* there is for this— article; blankets bearing equally favourable comparision. Now, as how to floab such a company. Wehave m Manawatu a large number of small flock-owners, who possibly might be anxious to become shareholders m such a' concern, x bat who 'could not subscribe m hard cash. For such provision could 45e made for their •payments being, m w,ool. t .JL(ar.ge^hQldi)rs.^ou^dJ)e. able tosupply both money and material, and, with >the outside such, a venture- would command*- -I see no insuperable difficulty m starting what early become a paying; venture. There is another industry th«t should commond itseJito, those, interestedin pastoral pur« suits, that is meat-presei?ving,'oc tinning. A.nd with regard to floating such a cornpan y^tbe same remarks as to payment-; are epplicable. As a concomitant to meat preserving there shou'd be a tannery. Eyeu now, under most, unfavourable circumstances, meu find it pays to shoot wild cattle, not for their " hide and tallow,"' bub only for their hide ; the supply* of skins from this alorie would be considerable. Cheese, and butter, have b ion writtflri about ad. lib. 1" would follow. I know thereis a'ptofitable marketfor bacon,. :but\ until -wtf unite to produce a good article we need not bid forJhjß^trade. A little inquiry and the practical application of the information obtained would' p'rerent American canned fruit coming into this market. We can grow vegetables against the world ; vhy, then, import English pickles;. ; All tp dpyis to prod bee a good article at raavketable^ price. Ths s^cejs^^^njy. of time, remem'beifrntr atwlfys'tirat f€ is by wisely directed, industry wj thrjiye. — I am*SJc., : ; . : ''" "' '-*.•"" - ■ Progress. JMayJUJ. ...1 v.x. „ v v