NEW ZEALAND'S NEED OF LAND-OPENING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13399, 30 January 1907, Page 10

NEW ZEALAND'S NEED OF LAND-OPENING.

[I'KOJI OCR OWN C.'ORHESPONUKNT.] London. December 21. j " I wish you would urge the New Zealand I Government to do more in the way of openI ing up the country and extending its trade." exclaimed a New Zealander now on a visit to England, who called on me a day or two ago. " Willingly. But how?" "Well, in the first place it is perfectly scandalous if you consider how little is i' really being done to open up the land and settle th<> people* upon it, especially in the north of Auckland, but. elsewhere as well. If the Ward Government, would only push on with the opening up of the land in all pails qt the colony and offer increased induce- , nvi'tits and facilities for people* to come out mid settle on if, the result- would he an I enormous development of New Zealand proI din export trade.

! ".Inst look only ut lie question of army i supplies," my visitor went on to say. "Why I should the British army have to go outside the Kmpirc tor its supplies when they could be .-<> easily obtained within the hmpire? Why should not Xeiv Zealand h ! .:ve file opportunity of supplying meat, and other food required by the army? It is useless to press the point while Xew Zealand produces comparatively so little, but if only her Government would bestir itself and get a iar<jo population on the land producing these necessaries there would be a virtually unlimited demand for them, and then both tlio New Zealand producers and the shipping lines would profit, while the British soldiers would have the advantage of enjoying purer and more wholesome food. At the present time some officials of the British Governjme id are in ;n- riea, with a view to mak- | ms? arrangements for continued supplies of canned meat, etc., from that country."