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Rh remote country like New Zealand, added to duty and to the original cost of the article, makes the purchase of imported goods very expensive.

I will give a short description of some of the principal industries, such as they are, of New Zealand, at the present time, enough to show that very promising success has attended efforts which have been already made, and alluding more particularly to those branches which seem peculiarly suited to the country and likely to thrive there. In speaking of a new country so thinly populated as New Zealand, cut-and-dried statistics and figures