SIR JULIUS VOGEL AT AUCKLAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1305, 19 February 1885, Page 3

SIR JULIUS VOGEL AT AUCKLAND.

Last Tuesday evening Sir Julius Yogel addressed a large meeting at the Auckland Theatre Royal. In the course of his address he said that the present Government were not ashamed to own that they attached the greatest importance to the establishment of local industries. He said he was neither a protectionist or a free trader, and, after dealing with this subject at some length, he expressed his regret at the repeal of the Forests Act which he had carried just before he last left the Government. Speaking of the Fishing Industry he said he was of opinion that more fish existed around the coast of New Zealand than in any other part of the world, and he thought it would be well worth the while of the Gouernment to offer a continuous bonus for a large quantity of fish to be preserved and tinned, until a market for it was established. He then referred to wheat und cereals, and said that whether or not ths present low prices continued, it was clear that New Zealand with its large average production per acre was in abetter position to succeed in the production of cereals as compared with those countries where the average being smaller, the profits were much leas, He referred also to wool, frozen meat, and then to sub-tropical productions. The exhibitions which it was proposed periodically to hold bad two objects : the development of local industries and the developoment of local talent. He eulogised Mr Stout’s efforts to promote technical education,add said if ho were Mr Stout he would be prouder of these efforts than of all the so called radical measures. He vvaa trying to obtain proposals that would enable him to submit to Parliament that after the end of the present Californian nia’l contract a new service should h« substituted, in which the terminus of the line from gap Francisco should he Auckland, giving a service of sixteen days to San Francisco, and thirty days to England. Federation, the Annexation of Samoa, local Government, the North Island Trunk Railway, and other subjects were thep briefly alluded to, and at the conclusion of the address Sir Julius was accorded a hearty vote of thanks.