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NOTES ON NEW ZEALAND.
most expensive articles in furniture are at present imported.
IRON FOUNDRIES.
Iron foundries exist in New Zealand chiefly for the manufacture of agricultural implements. Cutlery, however, and articles of that description are mostly imported from abroad, and in this line Sheffield and American wares command the market. Colonial made implements are generally preferred to English on account of being better suited to the work for which they are required.
