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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 78
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These Articles have been written in the hope of arousing public and commercial interest in the Islands. Not only is their trade already valuable, but industrial developments are rapidly enhancing its worth, while the opening in a few years' time of the Panama Canal must inevitably make it one of the most desirable in the world. Yet New Zealand is allowing her hold to be loosened and her trade to gradually slip away. If lost trade is to be regained by New Zealand, her merchants will have to bestir themselves, and at once, for in a few years' time it will have gone beyond recovery.
Percy S. Allen.
"N.Z. Herald Office," Auckland.August 10th, 1908.