NEW ZEALAND 



This stock-owner's paradise stands alone among all other 

 countries that I am describing as being an ideal stock-raising 

 country, with the healthiest of climates, an absence of serious 

 stock diseases, with the richest of pasture, and the industry of 

 its farmers. New Zealand farmers need never fear that labour 

 troubles are going to block their progress, because they are 

 in the happy position of being able to do all their own work 

 at any pinch which may occur. Unionists have tried in the 

 past to block the shipment of the farmers' produce, but have 

 been badly beaten every time, until now they recognise that 

 it is to their interest to work satisfactorily. Another reason 

 why New Zealand is a good and progressive country is because 

 the bulk of the people own property, mostly of moderate 

 dimensions ; therefore, it ' is hard indeed for socialists or 

 anarchists to get elected to Parliament. 



New Zealand's sheep, at last census, amounted to 26,538,302, 

 and cattle 2,500,000. Her exports of mutton and lambs in a 

 pre-war year amounted to- 2,500,000 sheep, 3,500,000 lambs, 

 and 55,000 carcases of beef, the mutton and lamb shipments 

 alone amounting to 25 per cent of her flocks. 



In the North Island the sheep are almost entirely fattened 

 on grass ; but in the South Island, particularly in Canterbury 

 and Northern Otago, on root crops. The bulk of the beef 

 exports are shipped from the North Island. As will be seen 

 by the list of the meat-works at the end of this volume, New 

 Zealand is well provided with them in every part of the country. 

 Most of these, at the present time, are full of frozen meat of 

 all kinds, and a vast reserve is awaiting Great Britain directly 

 shipping resumes its pristine activities. 



It was thought, some years ago, that New Zealand could 

 not much increase its flocks and herds ; but scrub country, 

 and native lands in the North Island, still offer great pros- 

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