TARANAKI TRADE. INCREASE OF EXPORTS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 384, 13 July 1889, Page 4

TARANAKI TRADE. INCREASE OF EXPORTS.

New Plymouth, July 10. The exports from the breakwater have increased greatly during the last half year. A return laid before the New Plymouth Haibour Board to-day shows that over £100,000 worth of produce and stock has been sent during the first six months of the year, which included 890 tons butter, 476 tons of flax, 418 tons (measurement) grass seed, 390 tons (measurement) fungus, 1,780 head cattle, 7,179 sheep, besides wool, hides, cheese, timber, jam (two tons), sheepskins and sundries to make up the amount stated.

The following petition has been circulated in the city for signature with a view to being forwarded to Mr D. Goldie, M.H.E., for presentation to the General Assembly : " That your petitioners view with grave conceni the introduction into your honourable House of a Bill intituled ' An Act to Provide for Private Schools,' the main objects of which your petitioners believe would be to undermine and break up our present most excellent system of free and undenominational education (a system which has merited the applause of all right thinking individuals in this colony, and has worked so admirably in the past with excellent results), and to grant facilities for the introduction of sectarian education, thereby causing strifes, prejudices, and divisions among the residents of this hitherto peaceful colony. The passing of such a measure, as your honourable House is aware, would not only cause those strifes, prejudices, and divisions among the community, but would entail an endless expense on the Exchequer of the colony, and consequently on the purses of the at present over-taxed ratepayers. Your petitioners, therefore, feel that under the circumstances, it would be unwise, impolitic, and injurious to the well-being of the community at large to pass any such measure^ and they trust your honourable House, in its wisdom, will veto its introduction, the passing of which" would be subversive to the best interests of the colony."—" Auckland Star "