FIFTY YEARS AGO.
■ -— —♦-—_ < HOKITIKA GOLOFIELDS. POSSIBILITIES OF TRADE. (Prom th* HERALD of September 27, 1865.) Wb are j losing our' consumers by every vessel that leaves for the South, but it is more than questionable whether we are taking corresponding steps to push our lost trade into new fields. It is not because our Auckland men leave us for a time for Hokitika that ire should allow them to take their custom from our stores. We, too, can follow them with our goods as well as Dunedin or Canterbury, yet we do not do so. For one vessel that leaves Auckland or the Manukau for Hokitika, or the Grey, ten leave Dunedin. We take up a paper containing the shipping news of only on© day in Dunedin. and we find that seven vessels cleared out for and" nine entered in from Hokitika and the Grey. This is pushing trade, and Dunedin men seem to know how to do it. It is true a market can b>» overstocked, hut it must he remembered also that it is not New Zealand men alone who are flocking to the West Coast goldfields. A rapid emigration has set in from Australia, and before the summer shall have fairly set in there bids fair to be a large population, and one which, earning a hi' T h average of wages, will consume largely.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16033, 27 September 1915, Page 8
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