PUT THE PEOPLE ON THE LAND.
JTKJJL J.ULJL4 ■“‘**V^* T 6 THE EDITOR OF'THE NEW ZEA-LAND TIMES* 1 Site. reading yotir correspondent 1 “ ” letter on our coal jinines, ‘ wherein lie states that the output of the Greymouth and Westport coal mines have, since the great demand caused by the Newcastle strike, increased from 302,000 tons annually to a weekly
output equal to half a million tons annually, I was reminded of the often repeated cry “Put the people on the land.” Now, Sir, in 1882 Now Zealand produced ten and a quarter million bushels of wheat, which sold at an average of 45s per quarter. In 1885 the product had fallen to four and a quarter million bushels, and the price to an average of 38s per quarter. I gather from this that the people are ready and willing to till the land when there is a payable market for their produce. The same argument applies to our local manufactures. Give us the Home market for our goods instead of sending orders to foreign countries, and the manufacturers will soon supply as good and as cheap an article as can be imported. —I am, &c., J. Dransfield.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 866, 5 October 1888, Page 15
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