The international geography . 315.—Average pop-ulation of a squaremile of New Zealand. export, wool-scouring, bone-crushing,boots and shoes, and woollen stuffs. tanning, and the manufacture ofThe best frozen mutton importedinto Great Britain comes fromNew Zealand. Agriculture comesnext to grazing, and gold andcoal mining follow and kauri gumdigging are of importance. Brickand tile making, furniture making,iron founding and machine making,flax-dressing, printing, jam makingand brewing are other is prohibited by manufactures are more orle
The international geography . 315.—Average pop-ulation of a squaremile of New Zealand. export, wool-scouring, bone-crushing,boots and shoes, and woollen stuffs. tanning, and the manufacture ofThe best frozen mutton importedinto Great Britain comes fromNew Zealand. Agriculture comesnext to grazing, and gold andcoal mining follow and kauri gumdigging are of importance. Brickand tile making, furniture making,iron founding and machine making,flax-dressing, printing, jam makingand brewing are other is prohibited by manufactures are more orless protected by customs duties,often as high as 20 and 25 percent, ad valorem. Butter andcheese are of excellent quality,and are made in factories on theDanish system for export to GreatBritain. Three-fourths of the tradeof the colony is with the mothercountry, and nearly all the restwithin the British Empire—with Australia, India and Fiji. The colony iswell ^.^royided with State-owned railways, telegraphs and telephones,. Fig 316.—r/je Railways of New Zealand, 1S99. 634 The International Geography commonly speak of them. The four chief ports are fortified with batteries and torpedoes. Incase of war about eight thousand fairly efficient volunteers could be imme-diately mustered. A British warship, towards the cost of which the colonycontributes, is stationed in New Zealand waters. Towns.—For many years New Zealand was divided into these were legally abolished in 1876, the names of the ProvincialDistricts are still used for the sake of convenience, and the colonists They are Auckland, Taranaki, Hawkes Bay,Wellington, Nelson, Marlborough, Canter-bury, Westland, Otago, Southland. Thefour principal towns are Auckland, Christ-church, Dunedinand Wellington. Aucklandis the most attractive to the eye, and its fineharbour is important for trade. Wellington,though still the smallest, is the capital, andis overtaking the others in population. the others, w
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