Notes on New Zealand. W. E. Swanton
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W. E. Swanton
Notes on New Zealand
Published by Good Press, 2020
EAN 4064066066710
Table of Contents
The Country, the Climate, and the Natural Productions of New Zealand.
NATIVE ANIMALS, BIRDS, REPTILES, FISHES, etc.
Manufactures and Minor Industries.
THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF SOCIETY.
PREFACE.
These notes are intended to embody, in the smallest possible compass, a description of some of the more important features of the country, trade, and productions of New Zealand. I have also ventured to express some of the conclusions at which I have arrived after several years of varied experience in the Colonies, conclusions which, it will be observed, are generally favourable to New Zealand as a field of enterprise and emigration in preference to the other divisions of Australasia.
I am fully sensible that this work, brief as it is, is not without its shortcomings and defects, but the main object of its pages will be accomplished if it succeeds in correcting some of the mistaken