COMPARATIVE STATISTICS.
We often hear'(wriies iho North Otago. Times) of the backwardness of *%lfivr Zealand m the race of progress compared with the sister colonies of Victoria and &ew South Wales. If New Z aland does not show to the front at the present time with the same promise as the two colonies mentioned, it is not because of the unproductiveness of her soil. Taking the provincial districts of Canterbury and Otago (including Southland) al me, we find that m wheat there is m the first-mentioned province no less than 5,226,286 bushels for export, and it the latter there cannot be leas rhan between two and three million bushels. The exportable surplus of Victoria this year did not come up to two million of bushels In oats and barley there is also a large exportable surplus m New Zealand is also well to the front of the colonies of Victoria and New South Wales, and it is perhaps only a question of a few years, when New Zealand will hold the first place among the Australasian colonies
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 133, 12 May 1883, Page 2
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177COMPARATIVE STATISTICS. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 133, 12 May 1883, Page 2
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