THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1909. THE AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3209, 8 June 1909, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1909. THE AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK.

The effect of the Argentine drought ' upon the flocks and herds o f great pastoral count— j^j sufficiently. r- j 9 re y y stre--" .- 6 cnen the Vvdol market. Unless rain frills §i3dri throughout the Parnp"a§ i : egidn there must be a great shortage in all its agricultural and pastoral exports, a consideration j which will help to sustain or to lift prices all along the line. That Argentina should be suffering from this visitation must excite our I sympathy, but since New Zealand I cannot avoid profiting tft p It" I should' ob Its uPpt l'o profit as much as possible;., Fhlch is to be done by ,'qpenuig- tt.e locked-up Crown and ,sattve Lands of the North Island, andby thus enabling settlers to get to work in this Dominion instead of drifting over to Australia and encouraging land settling immigrants to come in from the United Kingdom arid other countries. This settlement would speedily and Increase our exports %-' ah country to #* fuller advantage of markets. For New Zealand K unique among the nations in riever j suffering severely from any failure j I. of genial seasors. High prices ate! ruling in the agrictiltu'ra'l 'arid pastoral markets. Prd<3u>ce is wb'r'th '■ what a few years ago ha te\\ been regaled as n feri'di'fd! 'price. and the market Is 'practically insatiabk ns far as our producrs are' concerned. Why. then, 'aaks the "New Zealand 'Herald.'' does the Government not encourage production instead'Of "blocking production? Mr Buddo recently told the Canterbury farmers that there was abundance o'f land available for settlement in ! Auckland Province, and tnat the agitation for the opening of the Native Lands was mainly conducted by would-be speculators. If this Ministerial statement was an expression of the views held by Sir Joseph Ward, it indicates why.our Northern lands are locked up, why settlement is checked, and why the country is prevented ensuring continued prosperity by means of increased exports at the increasing prices: But it is inconceivable that Sir Joseph Ward can be as ignorant as Mr Buddo; so that the caus2 of the locking up of the North still remains a .lystery.