Remarkable Ignerance

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 94, 19 January 1886, Page 2

Remarkable Ignerance

' ■•-> W© : mtakathe fellowiii^^i<jß?^ from an English paper; >I|? sifoWigrosser ignorance of New- Zealand finances than 'is- usual" among in Great Britain;— The statistics in regard W New Zealand in particular and •Austr^asi&^newaiy-' ■" ."- may not be out ■of '■■ platie. Out fif &96 miUions.bprrpw.ed by ; . New..tZ.ea3and, she Jbias spent 56 millions onLijaHway.s, 20 miiiions' on . pobKc ; yror^s, aj^d nea^y io miUioniL on immigration. The r^ways,nearly pay the ; merest, and 'as for. the eimgratipn l^ai>^. the* immigrant pays jrreatly more than the interest pn fu? sum. D^joweo Jo bring mm. The customs revenue of New Zealand four timesiw mu'cii p^r head as in England six times as much^as in France, ten ' times as much in Germany, and nearly ; three times'as mucti as in the United States; The custom duties of NeX^oafe^d Sare f per comm'enbe/ while in Britafii 1 they are 3^per.centi > :and4peircen.t.,inirianee. In the TJnitedJStaj^j they amount to no less than 13. per cent. . The revenue of New ZealanolialS6d was £550,000; 'from 10,^ IZealand,1 Zealand, "Atf ydlumelof ) tra'd©o ! f t M ;! Aiißti'alasiaii ! colopie8 i aß compared with, the population is greater Mn mat of any cmlisedetate m the'worid. fci Australaaia itis£34 'p^rhead of the population. Itis only £16 in England; £9 in Prance, :£7 in v £^it^:t^^St!ates, and it is a startling commentary on tnemarvellbusgrowth of our Antipodean colonies that^their^commercerfoday is greater 'jkhWthaf of the United Kingdom -°W l tbi«f 'acceadon ..of - Her Majesty. In- 1836-7; the.,commerce of - the United Kingdom amounted to 98 millions; eieltadingy^ff couisei ''T^ds in transit.? In 18S3 the commence of .AuatoJaj^tOoivßidejaUy exceeded 100 millions. These being,, : 4flne,.,jin tip green tree, what will be done in the -liy'? "■.■■y.-i-y-r. ■ --j-;^ ) -■j.'-'r ■ MnVji-il ' /'\