Trade With Africa.

Manawatu Herald, 27 August 1896, Page 3

Trade With Africa.

: A New Plymouth resident, who recently wrote on the subject to a friend at the Cape, has received a reply in which the following passages occur : — " There is a ton of money in the business ; in fact, there is in almost anything in this great country, where the people don'c want the work to do, but people to do it. Fancy a tailor not being able to keep up with the demand for clothes, merely because he cannot get work men 1 Up here at Calegan eggs are 2s a dozen, and in town they are 2a 6d; butter is as bad, and meat is worse, the rinderpest sweeping off the cattle by thousands up country, and the Government killing any cattle coming from an infected district to stop the disease spreading. . . . Your trouble would be to get the stuff over here, as there is no direct line of boats from New Zealand to Africa, and the Aberdeen line from Australia is crammed full every trip. Meat and cheeee would be your best lines, I think, as they get lots of butter fiorn Australia, and the duty on these things is high — about 3d per 1b - but I think ihny will knock it off meat, as they cannot feed the population as it is. . . When the Matabele war is over, there are untold millions to be made in that country by anyone with pluck, for, according to fellowa who have beeuAhere, the country will grow anything, besides being full of mineral wealth