New Zealand in evolution, industrial, economic and political; . se in New Zealand stand high to-day amongstthe foreign races who, in a small way, have assisted inthe building up of the country. Two very importantindustries—dairying and gold-dredging—owe much tothe enterprise and initiative of Chinese citizens. But in each of the cases here referred to the smallnessof the infusion calls for remark. New Zealand is essen-tially a British community, as this table (from the lastcensus figures) shows :— Birth. Allegiance. British 867,466 875,722 Foreign 2i,ri2 12,856 The analysis of the New Zealand
New Zealand in evolution, industrial, economic and political; . se in New Zealand stand high to-day amongstthe foreign races who, in a small way, have assisted inthe building up of the country. Two very importantindustries—dairying and gold-dredging—owe much tothe enterprise and initiative of Chinese citizens. But in each of the cases here referred to the smallnessof the infusion calls for remark. New Zealand is essen-tially a British community, as this table (from the lastcensus figures) shows :— Birth. Allegiance. British 867,466 875,722 Foreign 2i,ri2 12,856 The analysis of the New Zealand nationality at the lastcensus was as follows :— Number. Native-born whites 606,247 Maori 47,731 Cook Islanders, &c 12,340 EngHsh and Welsh 118,704 Scots 47,767 Irish 42,460 Australian 47,256 Other British possessions ... 4,56o Germany 4,i74 China 2,602 Denmark ... ... 2,277 Austria-Hungary ... ... ... 2,212 Sweden 1,618 Norway ... ... 1,396 United States I,i68 France 624 Miscellaneous 5,5i3 Total 948,649 The population is now upwards of 1,100, To face i>. 45.) IX A KAVUl 45 to 50 ft. jjirth. CHAPTER IV FORESTS AND PROFLIGACY Spars for the early navigators—Kauri timber—The kauri forest—Dura-bility of native woods—Tests of strength—The wantonness of thepakcha—Axe and fire—Anxiety in Parliament—The forests in 1873—Vogels Forest Settlement Scheme—The executioners warrant—Aconservator of forests—A relapse—Foreign imports—The resourcesto-day—Kauri for eight years—Cutting capacity of the mills—Tree-planting—Restoring the kauri—The age of the trees—Competition ofOregon pine—The rivers of the North—Employment. Quite the first great fact that impressed itself upon the seamen adventurers to New Zealand after they had recovered from the shock of encountering such a gross barbarism was the surpassing value of the immense pine forests of the northern bays. Practically all of the first navigators refitted at one or other o
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