A GOLDEN VISTA

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2214, 29 July 1914, Page 4

A GOLDEN VISTA

*-—- s NEW ZEALAND'S PROSPERITY REVIEWED FUTURE EXPANSION The Prime Minister (tho Hon. W. F. Massey) again referred to the .prosperous condition of the Dominion yester- , ' - day when he, delivered an .address-in opening the conference of A. and P.' Societies. '.'.•."-.: Mr. Massey congratulated tW confer-. ,' ence .on the satisfactory sedioh which . Now Zealand had experienced, and he added that from tho v point of, view of prices and markets.: the outlook was never so good as at the present time. - He reminded them of the opining New' Zealand had in America, of which opening they should take every advantage. In America there were 90,000,000 people to be supplied with food. The Government was fully alive to the importance of the, position, and had made arrangements to have a representative exhibit of our produce- made at the Panama Exhibition. The opening of the Panama would be of immense importance to New Zealand. Respecting the Exhibition, Mr. E. Clifton (of the Department of Agriculture) -at the other end, and Messrs. O'Brien and M'Pherson (of tlia same Department) at this end were doing all they could to make the New Zealand stand a success. Mr. Massey said that he believed that' it would bo found that Now Zealand would be'aa •well represented there as any of, tha other English-speaking peorJe in -the, w0r1d.... _Up to the end of June '30 (the end of the export year), tho RegistrarGeneral estimated that our exports were of a total value of £24,960,468. That was a wonderful record, and Mr. Massey - thought that he need hardly; remind them that the agricultural industries were responsible for a very large .portion of it. There was no reason- wny we • should stop .at £25,000,000. - He .was . quite sure' that we could go on increasing our'exports to the same extent as we had ! increased them in the past few years. ... , '" • . The retiring chairman of the confer, r once (Mr. E. Campbell), in his address before vacating the chair, 'also referred to the good year which the country had experienced. He 6aid .that the Dominion had. had a most .prosperous year. He had never known a year when so much of what tvo produced had kept at such ■ a high level, and it would appear as if the consumption of wool, meat, and all by-products in. Europe had overtaken production. The United: States .of America, which, six years ago,' was the largest meat exporter to Great Britain, was now unableto supply, itself, and already, large quantities .of Argentine' meat had reached the' New York market —even : some small parcels from this - country. Judging by the way both cattle and-sheep were falling in .numbers, while the population was ever increasing, this trade must increase to enormous dimensions. Last year sheep,in tho United States decroased by 1,500,000, and in the last three years by 7,000,000. Cattle, also, had decreased since the ranges wore 'stocked witb sheep. . .