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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 23

Silk

Silk.

The bonuses offered in 1881 and 1882 to encourage the production of silk, in cocoons or eggs, were never taken up. The importation of silk decreased last year by 33 per cent., attributable mainly to its growing disuse as an article of apparel. The silk industry is not likely to be established, even feebly, in this colony, unless by a scheme of special immigrants born and bred to the business, and imported specially to introduce it here. It might be desirable for the Government to encourage this idea by offering facilities for acquiring land, and by importing and cultivating the proper variety of mulberry.