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Tuva,) a plant belonging to tho same Natural Order with those pro¬ 
ducing the Cinnamon, Cassia, Sassafras, Benzoin, and Camphor of 
commerce; and, lastly, the Waiwatua ( Euphorbia glauca ,) may also 
prove useful as a medicine, seeing so very many species of tho samo 
genus have long been medicinally employed. 
31. Although the fitness and suitability of many parts of the North 
Island for producing all Cereals, and Ediblo Boots and Vegetables, 
and most European fruits, has long been well-known, and its great 
fruitfulness proved by its former largo exports of tho same,—after 
providing a sufficiency for its own people ; still it would scarcely bo 
proper to close this Essay without some reference to such productions. 
It is greatly to bo lamented, that, with the excojition of Potatoes, 
there has been no export of Agriculturaljproduce for tho last 3 years; 
owing, in part, to the war, and to the very great increase of consumers 
with less producers. For several years, however, before tho prosent 
war commenced, the export of Cerealia from this Island had boon 
steadily decreasing annually; as the following statement, compilod 
from official papers, will shew. 
Value in Money, of Gram, ( Wheat, Barley, Oats, Maize, and Flour,) and 
of Potatoes, exported annually from the Provinces of the North Island of 
New Zealand, for the 10 years ending 1862. 
TEARS. 
AUCKLAND. 
TARANAKI. 
WELLINGTON AND HAWKS’S 
BAY. 
Grain 
&C. 
Potatoes. 
Grain 
kc. 
Potatoes. 
Grain, 
Ac. 
Potatoes. 
1853 
£ 
12,495 
0 
d. 
i 
£ 
18,489 
M. 
15 
d. 
o 
£ 
2,456 
1 *' 
1C 
d. 
0 
8,078 
s.\d. 
0 0 
£ 
1,175 
8. 
1 
d. 
9 
£ 
3,667 
f. 
fl 
A. 
6 
1854 
27,589 
3 
S 
35,255 
10 
0 
5,181 
16 
c 
5,076 
10 0 
6,607 
11 
6 
16,137 
13 
0 
1855 
ci.m 
2 
c 
44,496 
10 
0 
3,007 
0 
0 
15,168 
19 
0 
6,706 
17 
0 
17,C8G 
9 
0 
185C 
12,934 
6 
0 
11,133 
0 
0 
.. 
1,200 
0 
0 
5,889 
0 
0 
1,349 
0 
0 
1857 
17,884 
19 
0 
8,136 
0 
0 
274 
0 
0 
1,582 
0 
0 
2,575 
10 
0 
6,552 
0 
0 
1858 
5,859 
14 
0 
13,013 
0 
0 
552 
2 
6 
4,850 
0 
0 
623 
0 
0 
4,393 
0 
0 
1859 
6,087 
0 
0 
6,568 
0 
0 
625 
0 
0 
2,819 
0 
0 
2,643 
0 
0 
240 
0 
0 
1860 
1,013 
0 
(1 
7,562 
0 
0 
61 
0 
0 
278 
0 
0 
1,228 
0 
0 
2,720 
0 
0 
1861 
174 
0 
0 
1,760 
0 
0 
.. 
.. 
.. 
- 
.. 
68 
0 
0 
150 
0 
0 
1862 
60 
0 
0 
7,445 
0 
0 
•• 
•• 
•• 
•• 
•• 
•• 
•• 
1,942 
0 
0 
Totals £ 
144,291 
6 
2 
158,888 
16 
0 
12,057 
9 
0 
83,552 
9 
0 
26,516 
°l 
8 
64,837 
2 
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