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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8542, 23 November 1888, Page 4

Many shrewd and far-seeing people confidently believe that the prosperous future of this Colony may be summed up in two yords, “butter” and “cheese.” The growing importance of the New Zealand dairy industry is not at all adequately recognised by the public generally. But it is nevertheless' a great fact, and one fraught ‘ with vast possibilities. The European demand- for dairy produce is almost illimitable. Hardly any country in the whole world, certainly. no country south of the Equator, enjoys such remarkable advantages as a dairying country as does New Zealand. Soil, climate, natural features, everything is most favourable, and now that the difficulty of transit to market has been overcome by the introduction of “ cool chambers ” in the vessels plying between New Zealand and Great Britain, the trade is bound- to ’ develop itself. to an extent only limited by the amount of New Zealand’s supplies. . When it is remembered that there are in the Colony already no fewer than four European buyers of dairy produce, the magnitude of the trade’s future potentialities can-hardly fail to suggest itself. It behoves those who are engaged in pastoral or agricultural pursuits to recognise this plain fact—that dairying is to be the Colony’s great industry of the'future, and to make their preparations accordingly, so that they may reap their due‘share of the prosperity which it will assuredly bring.