Rise of Australia

Chapter 174 Loss of Animal Husbandry
Whether it is Australia or New Zealand, there was a very high degree of recognition of the British Empire before.

This is why Australia and New Zealand continued to maintain a very close relationship with the British Empire by joining the Commonwealth of Nations after gaining independence successively.

But something is different now. During this disaster in New Zealand, the British Empire did not support New Zealand too much, and it was even just the same as other European powers.

This made some New Zealanders who still regard the British Empire as their suzerain feel dissatisfied and disappointed. Compared with Australia's aid, Australia's aid seems to be more sincere.

There are about three views on the status and situation of New Zealand before. The first view is that New Zealand should continue to be under the rule of the British Empire. As the number one power in the world today, the British Empire can well protect the interests of New Zealand.

The second view is that New Zealand should seek more independent status, and even try to promote New Zealand to become an independent country.

The third view is that like Grant, they are full of affection for Australia, which has the same status and history as New Zealand, and they are trying to unite New Zealand and Australia, and even return to the previous Australian colonial period, so that the two regions can be thoroughly and firmly integrated. join together.

Before Australia became independent, the degree of support for these three viewpoints was one greater than two and greater than three.

After Australia became independent from Australia and became the principality of Australia, New Zealanders' view of New Zealand has become more than two than three.

With Arthur becoming the governor of New Zealand and carrying out various construction and relief operations in New Zealand, the second view and the third view basically maintain the same level of support, but in the later period, the view of United Australia has surpassed New Zealand's independence the opinion of.

But at this time, the United Australia or even the complete combination did not gain complete advantages. Many people still have full expectations for the independence of the British Empire and New Zealand.

This move by the British Empire undoubtedly killed the hope of these people. Would the New Zealanders trust a suzerain who did not give them great assistance in times of crisis?
Especially compared with Australia, the aid of the British Empire seems to be a poor handout.

This report directly hits the heart of all New Zealanders. A question has emerged in the minds of all New Zealanders. What is the future of New Zealand?
Although there is still no clear answer, many New Zealanders have begun to loosen their hearts and began to focus on the New Zealand Coalition Party, which is currently in the limelight.

On November 1903, 11, the 29st day after the typhoon disaster.

After 21 days of rescue and reconstruction work, a lot of debris caused by the typhoon and waves were gradually cleared out.

This is also limited to the urban areas that are to be rebuilt, and there is still a large amount of the coastal plain that is currently in ruins.

The damage caused by this typhoon to New Zealand is far more than that on the surface. The agricultural planting areas on the large plains on the west coast have nothing. It is expected that New Zealand's agriculture and animal husbandry will also be severely affected in a short time.

However, agriculture and animal husbandry are one of the pillars of New Zealand's economy and an important means for the current New Zealand colonial government to generate income.

This also means that New Zealand's future finances will definitely fall into a deficit, and even this deficit will last for several years.

The post-disaster reconstruction work has entered a relatively stable stage, and Arthur has time to return to Wellington to discuss the next step with Wellington officials.

Wellington, the colonial government building, in a conference room.

The conference room at this time was even more lively than the conference room where the plan was discussed after the disaster last time. It was full of people from the New Zealand colonial government, the New Zealand Labor Party and the Coalition Party, the Political Group, the mayors of various cities, Pierce, the commander of the garrison, and the person in charge of the relief society, Yue Shu. Ya and other hundreds of officials packed this small meeting room to the brim.

"Everyone, the topic of today's meeting is to discuss New Zealand's next step plan, including the assistance plan for these refugees, and what aspects of our reconstruction work are mainly focused on. How to enable these refugees to obtain income and re-enter life is our main direction." Arthur inspected everyone, and finally spoke slowly.

"Your Highness, everyone." An official of the New Zealand colonial government spoke first: "This typhoon not only caused a devastating blow to our cities on the west coast, but also caused a devastating blow to our livestock industry on the west coast."

"According to rough statistics, at least one million cattle and sheep died in this typhoon, and hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep disappeared. It's going to go back to where it was before, and that means a long period of downturn for the New Zealanders' economy and the country's income."

"So I think, in addition to rebuilding the towns on the west coast, these refugees can also continue to use the method of work-for-work to clean up large areas of pastoral areas on the west coast. In this way, our pastoral areas can recover faster, and these Refugees will also be temporarily given a gainful job, allowing them to return to normal life."

New Zealand's livestock areas spread across the North Island and South Island, which is why a small New Zealand can become a large livestock country.

But unfortunately, the pastoral areas of New Zealand's North Island are distributed to the west of the mountains, that is, the west coast and the Auckland Peninsula.

But this happened to be the hardest hit area of ​​this typhoon, which also caused New Zealand's livestock industry to suffer major losses in this typhoon.

The opinion of New Zealand colonial government officials is very simple, that is to invest as much human and material resources as possible in the restoration of animal husbandry and animal husbandry areas, because this is not only related to the economy and income of many New Zealand herdsmen, but also to the economy and income of New Zealand as a whole.

As a pillar industry in New Zealand, the income from animal husbandry accounts for more than half of the total income of the New Zealand colonial government, and it is also the industry that most New Zealanders depend on for survival.

This is something that New Zealand is proud of as a large livestock country, but in the face of such a huge disaster, rebuilding the livestock industry has also become very important.

At least half of the hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders in the affected areas work in the livestock industry.

This brings them a stable income, which is also the guarantee for their survival.

Therefore, the best way for them to resume their lives is to allow them to continue to have a stable source of income when the animal husbandry on which they depend is restored, instead of simply relying on relief from the government and the outside world.

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