Chapter 174 Losses in the Livestock Industry

Both Australia and New Zealand had 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 after they gained independence.

But now it is a little different. In this disaster in New Zealand, the British Empire's support for New Zealand is not too high, and it is even just the same as other European powers.

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

There were about three views on New Zealand's status and situation before. The first view is that New Zealand should continue to remain under the rule of the British Empire. As the world's first power today, the British Empire can protect New Zealand's interests very well.

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 like Grant. They are full of goodwill towards Australia, which has the same status and history as New Zealand, and try to unite New Zealand and Australia, and even return to the previous Australian colonial period, so that the two regions can be completely and firmly united.

Before Australia became independent, the support levels of these three views were one greater than two greater than three.

After Australia became independent and became the Principality of Australia, New Zealanders' views on New Zealand became two greater than three greater than one.

With Arthur becoming the Governor-General of New Zealand and carrying out various construction and relief operations in New Zealand, the second and third views basically maintained the same level of support, but in the later period, the view of uniting with Australia has surpassed the view of New Zealand's independence.

But at this time, the union with Australia or even the complete union did not gain complete advantages, and many people still had full expectations for the independence of the British Empire and New Zealand.

The British Empire's move undoubtedly killed the hopes of these people. Would New Zealanders believe in a sovereign who did not provide strong assistance to them in times of crisis?

Especially compared with Australia, the assistance of the British Empire seemed like a pitiful charity.

This report hits the heart of all New Zealanders. All New Zealanders have such a question in their minds: where will New Zealand's future go?

Although there is no very clear answer yet, many New Zealanders have begun to relax their hearts and start to focus on the New Zealand Alliance Party, which is currently in the limelight.

November 29, 1903, the 21st day after the typhoon disaster.

After 21 days of rescue and reconstruction, a large number of ruins caused by the typhoon and waves have been gradually cleared.

This is also limited to the urban areas to be rebuilt, and a large number of coastal plains are still in ruins.

The damage brought to New Zealand by this typhoon is far more than the surface. The agricultural planting areas on the large plains of the west coast are also gone. It is expected that in a short time, New Zealand's agriculture and animal husbandry will also be severely affected.

But agriculture and animal husbandry are one of the economic pillars for New Zealand and an important means for the current New Zealand colonial government to create income.

This also means that New Zealand's future finances will definitely fall into deficit, and this deficit will even 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 steps with Wellington officials.

Wellington, Colonial Government Building, a conference room.

The conference room at this time is even more lively than the conference room where the plan was discussed after the disaster last time. It is filled with hundreds of officials from the New Zealand Colonial Government, the New Zealand Labor Party and the Alliance Party, the Political Group, mayors of various cities, the garrison commander Pierce, the head of the relief association Joshua, etc., which fills this small conference room.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the theme of today's meeting is to discuss New Zealand's next plan, including the assistance plan for these refugees, and what aspects of our reconstruction work are mainly focused on. How to get these refugees to earn income and re-enter life is our main direction." Arthur looked around everyone and finally spoke slowly.

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

"According to rough statistics, at least millions of cattle and sheep died in this typhoon, hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep were missing, and the pastoral terrain on the west coast was severely damaged. Even within a few years, some pastoral areas on the west coast will basically not return to their previous state, which also means that the economy of New Zealanders and the country's income will enter a long period of depression."

"Therefore, I think that in addition to rebuilding the towns on the west coast, these refugees can continue to use work-for-relief to clean up the large pastoral areas on the west coast. In this way, our animal husbandry areas can recover faster, and these refugees will temporarily get a job with income, allowing them to return to normal life."

New Zealand's animal husbandry areas are spread across the North Island and the South Island, which is why the small New Zealand can become a major animal husbandry country.

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

But this is exactly the hardest hit area of ​​this typhoon, which also caused New Zealand's animal husbandry to suffer heavy losses in this typhoon.

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

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

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

At least half of the hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders in the disaster-stricken areas are engaged in animal husbandry.

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

Therefore, the best way for them to resume their lives is to let them continue to have a stable source of income when the animal husbandry on which they depend for survival is restored, rather than simply relying on government and external relief.

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