SENDING OATS TO ENGLAND.
The New Zealand oats (says a correspondent) arc arriving in London, and making a considerable impression hero in a quiet way. A gentleman brought some to me the other clay, which he had picked up in the clocks—the leakage from sacks of oats which were being taken out of the ships. He thought that such corn had never been seen in this country before. I met another gentleman from Mark-lane, who brought the same report as to the impression New Zealand oats were producing there. I am told that they are selling at more than 30s per quarter. With such a quality of oats as these, I do not see why oats should not pay to ship to England as well as wheat. That is, if anybody can be persuaded to sow oats again who has once had to sell them at Is per bushel ! At any rate, to send such corn home is indirectly a great benefit to the colony. A few samples going about the country arc capital emigration agents. And as they will soon be eaten up, they will escape the pitiless abuse' which usually falls to the lot of any ordinary mortal who tries to do good in that way !
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Patea Mail, 23 October 1880, Page 4
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