COLONIAL INDUSTRY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2538, 10 May 1881, Page 2

COLONIAL INDUSTRY.

The enterprise of New Zealand colonists has not hitherto extended itself to any great degree in the direction of manufacturing goods winch will find a ready sale in foreign markets (says the New Zealand Hearld). It is unnecessary to say that this has in a very great measure told against the advancement of the Colony ; but the lethargy which has characterised us as manufacturers is likely to go off, for we notice indications in many defferent parts of the Colony of a desire to push forward as much as possible the development of many industries which have languished for want of capital in some instances, and in others through want of enterprise. It is worthy of record that the firm of Reid and Gray, implement makers, Dunedin.and Timaru, have found, on account of the excellence of the implements made, a market outside New Zealand for their double-furrow ploughs. The farmers of Victoria, New South Wales, and Tasmania, are using their ploughs, and the linn have received most encouraging support from those colonies since a double-furrow plough of their inanufnctuge took first prize at the Melbourne and Sydney Exhibitions. We hope the firm in question will be able to extend their exportation business till every Australasian colony is reap-

ing the advantage to be got from the use of their ploughs, and that their example will be followed by others with an equal amount of energy and enterprise.