AUCKLAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 587, 18 June 1868, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

j LOG AI.IX1) I’ S ’]' Rlf. S. ,It is a good sign when public atten-i lion is exclusively given to t];o development of immediate resources. Wo have now ia a course of progressive, improvement tour most important! branches of native industry, viz., flax, gum, coal and gold. Wheat, we learn, I is being sowa largely in remoter dis-1 trials for homo consumption. The! ■ geld-hold we know to be a mine of! wealth, but we do not as yet know its extent. 'J. lie same ni-ty be said of the . cord-field at Kawa-k.iwa. Employments more attractive I save thinned , the number of gum-diggers, but there i should on tins account be the greater chance of profit fur those who remain r.t the occupation. It may perhaps be raid that both gul-.1-mining and coalmining require considerable physical prowess, and the conditions of such empdovn;.'at L-Kg successful are occasional hardships, and the endurance t<• -underao thorn. But iu gum-iiig-.-iui.' |rnd ilaxMiressir.;':, !he same physical ■ strength is nut- i\.juis::e. kliddle-aged men, or invalids, women and children are often, indeed nearly always, great sulierers through want of employment The able-bodied may be presumed to , have constant favor in the labor mar|ket. We receive from various quardters advices of the progress being made Jin flax cleaning. Wo were informed iby a gentleman from Waiuku, only i two days ago, that iu his neighbourhood tins industry is prosperous, and ■ that average hands can make Tss. fa-week, and good ones from 30s. iu .£2. We understand that Air Price dims tnoro orders for bis llax machines Jtlnm he can execute for some time, hand lately we hoard the same front the I head of an engineering arm in Auckland. The last phase which this industry has assumed gives additional promise of success and usefulness, Air ■ T. Macfarlauo, of the firm of Henderson and and Al-umii-lane, has re- : solved to make the experiment of giving employment to a number of ; women and children, providing them -lof course with the necessary impdo:.meats and bouse accommodation, rout •jfreo. The circumstances are in the M highest degree favourable to test the I ehUacv of this new industry in absorb--dng cither the surplus or (he iuiina •jlabnir in the warlmt. Six families ghavo been ire, matende-l by the BeII iieving Of.ieer to Hr IMacfarlr ne, and ! I these will proceed at once to lionder- , son’s Mill. Should these lie enabled. Ho employ themselves profitably, there ’; should be an end to any system of poor i I relief, exeeiit for sick, or totally dc-sti- ; mre, or aged persons. I*lr klacl'ariane, [we think, deserves toe thanks cl the * I public lor Ho suggestion he has made. 1 The most eiiicacious charity is that , which enables the poor man to work , out his own deliverance from poverty. I —New Zealand Herald, 12th Jane.