Our Changed Economy
ONES: The results are plain — twenty million acres of cultivated land have replaced fern and forest, swamp and plain; 50,000 miles of road and 3,000 miles of railroad have appeared in place of the picturesque foot and bridle paths of 1840. Surely a remarkable achievement for a people who numbered less than a million, only 30 odd years ago? ROBINSON: It is all the more striking since the course of development was never clear cut and certain. To-day we are a great pastoral country, sending a flow of foodstuffs to feed the vast industrial population of Great Britain, yet has it ever occurred to you that this state of affairs came about almost by accident? JONES: Certainly we might have trod a vastly different path. Until the ’80’s our solid wealth lay in wool and grain. There was gold, too, but it seemed perfectly clear that New Zealand was destined to become a land of great sheep runs and bonanza grain farms. ROBINSON: It did look that way, until in 1883 refrigeration changed the whole outlook for the economy of the tountry almost overnight. It turned
us eventually into a land of small dairy farmers, and the power of the large landowners was checked and finally broken..- ("Retrospect — a Summary of Achievement,’ prepared by F. Lingard, 2Y A November 11.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 75, 29 November 1940, Page 5
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223Our Changed Economy New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 75, 29 November 1940, Page 5
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