Nearly every country has the chance to produce certain goods
and services under more favourable conditions than its rival
countries enjoy, The conditions may be those of climate, or
natural products such as iron and coal, or cheapness of power, or
proximity to a market, or natural aptitude of the inhabitants,
or cheapness and efficiency of labour. It will always be found
that permanent prosperity is built on the production of those
goods that can be produced most favourably; and that attempts to
produce goods under difficult conditions are a source of distress,
worry and financial loss, often to the producer himself; oftener
still to the country as a whole.
In New Zealand we have proved that two special industries are
so suitable to our conditions that in them we have outstripped
the World. These are the sheep and dairy industries. We have
more sheep per head of population than any other country in the
World. 20 as compared with 17 in Australia and 9 in Uraquay. In
dairy cattle the position is still more marked since per head
of population we have twice as many cows as Denmark, Holland or
Switzerland. This development has been possible because of our
climate, the natural aptitude of our people, and the concentration
and portability of the product.
Is there any other industry in which we have similar advantages.
The suggestion is that the seed growing industry is in
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