THE EXPORT OF CHEESE AND BUTTER, TAXES, Etc.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 486, 11 March 1881, Page 2

THE EXPORT OF CHEESE AND BUTTER, TAXES, Etc.

To the Editor,

Sir, —That "Necessity is the mother of invention in a very old and very truthful saying, and scores of illustrations might be giv<-n of ttiis generally accepted truism The dairy-fanners of tho Peninsula at the preßi-ni moment inuit. out of necessity, invent or utilise tho inventions of others in finding a market outside of N.Z. for their produce or their trade will collapse, population will be driven away, and the Peninsula again turned into a sheep walk. These are probabilities, unless something is done I and that vigorously It has been too much ihe faebion for the many to stand on an eminence and pretend to point the way to the fow willing pioneers of enterpriso. It is found that the Colonial market is hopelessly glutted with dairy produce; that the production has far exceeded the demand ; and a miserable eystom of bartering is the only trade which remains to a very hard-working and once prosperous section of the community. A few, and only a few as yet, are attempting to find a new outlet for the benefit of all. Everyone agrees that the object sought is good, and the result (if successful) will be to the benefit of all; aye, even the tinker the tailor, Garwood's House on the Hill Top, and Economy Store. The merchants have neglected their business ; they find a few trifling difficulties, in the way of the export of certain articles, and they have been so used to tho cent per cent and barter system that they cannot get out of the groove, and what they have neglected to do for tho fanners the farmers must now do for themselves. The Imports of the colony are far too great for the exports, when we take into consideration the great quantity of gold which is annually sent home to satisfy the absentee creditors. We must export more, for every valuable export will add to the national wealth. We have bought the land from the Government, and after years of toiling and improving what with tax, tax, and tax upon tax, it is very evident they will eventually seize it and re sell it. There must have been something very wrong in the Political Economies of the rulers of New Zealand. They sadly rezuire weeding out —I am, etc., POLL-AXE. Long Bay Road.

Grkat excitement existed throughout Herefordshire on Bth January, when it became generally known that Miss Fanny Riiseel, youngest daughter of the late Captain Eussel, R.N., and who resided cat Hampton Dene, had yesterday disappeared. The river was dragged, arid the wooda in (he country searched, but without effect. N<?.si 'Jay, however, a number of citizens again examined the Wye, when the body of Mif.fi iiussel was found in about four futt of vi ati i r. The deceased was about forty-five years of nge, and was related to the Marcuu;? of Kciniii l .));.] v.