Page:Notes on New Zealand (1892).pdf/120

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been validated.
110
NOTES ON NEW ZEALAND.

the cattle trade. Australia at present produces sufficient beef of her own, but England will be in a few years our great market. Perhaps when the Chinese become Christians and give up their rice and chop-sticks we may also find a very large market amongst them, although at present the feelings of the colonial labourer towards the "heathen Chinee" are the reverse of friendly; but time works wonders, and so does Christianity.

DAIRIES AND BUTTER FACTORIES.

In connection with the subject of cattle, we have dairying and butter making. Up