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Wellington Independent, Volume XXIV, Issue 2783, 12 January 1869, Page 3

Locat; Manufactures. — We are glad to see that the colonial press is calling attention to this important subject. The Marlhoroztgh Express of the 7th inatant says :— " Among the numerous remedies pointed out by the State physicians and political economists, there is one to which we would earnestly direct public attention, namely, the developement of manufacturing industry. So long as we are dependent on foreign sources for so many articles of necessary consumption, with so few to export in return, co long will wo be in a state, even at the best, of uncertain solvency, and a large portion of our population will be driven to anomadeYife, and consequently be uneducated and demoralised. The raw materials of wealth are scattered around us in rich profusion, and yet how little, comparatively, is turned to account ; while the manufactured articles are largely imported at exorbitantly enhanced prices. All we aim at now is to invite public attentiontothisiniportanttopic,and we shall lakean early opportunity of returning to its consideration, and endeavor to show, as we believe we can, that it is quits within the power of tho colonists of New Zealand to produce for themselves articles as good and cheap, if not superior to much that is now imported from foreign markets, and paid for with the crtsh which ought to bo retained in the colony, as wage-paying capital. The absence of all lacal manufactures, was, we feel assured, one of the principal causes of the poverty and misery of Ireland. Belfast, and Londonderry, the chief, we might say the only manufacturing districts of Ireland, are at once the wealthiest and most peaceable ; and arguing from analogy, we venture to predict that in New Zealand, wherever manufacturing industry is established and sustained, there will the sun of prosperity most continuously shine.