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TOPICAL READING.

THE BUTTER MARKET. . The housewife may rest content that there ia at present small likelihood of any further rise' in the price of butter. A leading Auckland butter merchant when interviewed on the subject, said that the position on the butter market was absolutely stagnant, "t haVe Hever known the market to be sc quiet for this time of the year," he said. "There has been no buying for South Africa, and it looks as if the price is likely to maintain itself. On account of the very favourable season, there is still a fair quantity of farmers' and factory DUtti r coming into the city, and it does hot look as if the market will ses any change until the new season seta in. Unless S.juth Africa commences to buy and the stocks do not prove large enough to meet the demand, the housewife need not look for any material changejn the price of butter."

OUR NATIONAL

New Zealand owes.much to its forests I and its mining fields, but however much it may profit by the wealth'won from these sources, those engaged in milling and mining will be the first to admit that the permanent prosperity of the country must be based upon agriculture. For, however much we may increase the output of timber and gold, of coal, of gum, of flax and other natural products, and great as may be the advantage gained by the profitable employment of both labour. and capital thus secured, the working of the sail is the only industry to which there is no finality. The gold left in a mine vne year may be taken out in another, but the crop which was not taken out of the laud is. utterly and wholly lost. This ought to be realised by every citizen in the Dominion, and particularly by the city populations, which* depend for trade and employment upon the "putting into circulation'' of the wealth won in various-ways from the Earth. The prosperity of the Dominion during recent years, remarks the Auckland "Herald," has not been due to any aptitude of its legislators or administrators, but to the energy of j its industrialists.

SOUTH AFRICA.

The Earl of Crewe, Secretary of State for the Colonies, speaking of the South African banquet in London last month,-said when the'time came he was sure that all parties in this country would welcome the creation of another great dominion in the Union of South Africa. He trusted that so far as material prosperity was concerned, things were"looking better in South Africa. With regard to the great mining industry he hoped it was true. Looking back to. January, 1904, the output for the month was £1,231,000, and the number of natives employed was 75,C00. In January, 1909, five years afterwards, those figures were more than doubled, the output being £2.616,000 —and, indeed, if he had taken the month of December, it was £2,Boo,ooo—while the coloured labour employed was 181,000,, .of whom 169,000 were natives. That showed a great progressiva advance itf the industry, and he noticed the cost of i production had also dropped. A great '

community like South Africa could not, and ought not to", live upon business alone. If South Africa was to have a great Imperial future there must be a contented and busy population on the land, and therefore Jhe welcomed \all the efforts that were made to improve the condition of,, the farmers of„all races there, to improve agricultural education, and in particular to fight against those insect pests which were the curse of African agriculture and African commercial development.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9534, 5 July 1909, Page 4

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TOPICAL READING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9534, 5 July 1909, Page 4

TOPICAL READING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9534, 5 July 1909, Page 4

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