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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 61

Industries

Industries.

Many considerations require with care to be thought in treating on the industries that can with advantage introduced into a comparatively new and sparsely page 10 inhabited country. It may be accepted as a general [unclear: n] that both in the arts and manufactories, where perfect coupled with economical production is the [unclear: desiderata] trained specialists alone will be found capable of [unclear: compcr] with practical workmen of older countries; and [unclear: ap] thoroughly trained men become too well established their own homes to risk the uncertainty of foreign [unclear: pt] To this may be added the spasmodic supply of [unclear: suitr] labour.

By these remarks it is by no means intended to the damp over the introduction of local industries; but' point out, before risking a venture, the necessity of [unclear: cal] in the guiding aid of the political economist. With climate, soil, water power, fuel, and in some [unclear: t] abundance of raw material, this part of New Zealand certainly pre-eminently adapted for a manufacturing [unclear: ce] more particularly when we consider the means of [unclear: sup] for a dense population through the food-producing [unclear: po] of the country.

Commencing with the industries of New [unclear: Plymco] we notice first,—