The Press. Published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Saturday, September 19, 1908. THE DOMINION’S GROWTH.
A brochure issued from the Government Printing Office entitled 11 Statistical View of Fifty Years’ Progress in Flew Zealand,” throws a bright light on the growth of the country in the period from 1858 to 1907. During the halfcentury the population, exclusive of Maoris, rose from 59,413 to 929,484. The area under cultivation increased from 141,007 acres to 14,884,617. The number of sheep in the country increased from 1,523,324 to 20,983,772, horses from 14,912 to 352,832, horned cattle from 137,204 to 1,816,299, and pigs from 40,734 to 241,128. The value of the exports has grown in the fifty years from £433,949 to £19,783,138, while that of the imports rose from £1,141,273 to £17,302,861. Of the exports the shipments of wool have grown in value from £254,022 to £7,657,278, and the value of the frozen meat sent a'way has
increased in the period 1882 to 1907 from £1,9,339 to £3,420,664. The export of grain shows great fluctuations, the value in 1858 being £20,680 and in 1883 £1,286,724, but in 1907 it reached only £53,205. The shipments of dairy produce show great growth, the butter sent away in 1858 beingvalued at £2,838 • and the 1907 shipments at £1,615,345. The value of the ’cheese exports grew from £3,995 to £662,355, and the flax fibre from £1,516 to £832.068. The gold export of 1858 was valued at £52,443, and that of 1907 at £2,027,490;*' but the heaviest shipments were in 1866, when they reached a value of £2,844,517. There has been a steady increase in the number of vessels registered in New Zealand, their gross tonnage in 1858 being 6852, and in 1907 197,001. In the fifty years the deposits in the banks trading in New Zealand increased from £418,078 to £23,517,111, while the balance to credit of depositors in the savings banks grew from £7,862 to £12.825,063. Altogether the pamphlet gives splendid evidence of the wonderful growth of the Dominion.
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Waipukurau Press, Issue 310, 19 September 1908, Page 4
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331The Press. Published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Saturday, September 19, 1908. THE DOMINION’S GROWTH. Waipukurau Press, Issue 310, 19 September 1908, Page 4
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