Talk:Julius Vogel
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Sir Julius Vogel's principal achievement as a colonial statesman was the discovery that the savings of the mother country could, with mutual advantage, be obtained by the colonies and applied to the construction of railways and other public works. That his system of finance was on the whole successful was amply proved by the prosperous state of the Australasian colonies. Sir Julius Vogel was the author of the act by virtue of which Colonial stock has been inscribed at the Bank of England and has become a popular investment for trustees. His project of law was accepted by the imperial government to the equal benefit of all the colonies. His scheme of public borrowing for the colony of New Zealand was put into effect in 1870, and within the next ten years the colony borrowed £22,500,000 at diminishing rates of interest, the population rose from 250,000 to 500,000, the extent of land under cultivation increased from 1,000,000 to 4,000,000 acres, and the value of exports from £500,000 to £1,500,000. It is also stated that in the same ten years he introduced 100,000 immigrants and caused 1,200 miles of railway to be constructed. During a visit to England he established the existing mail service between New Zealand and San Francisco. In his first premiership he set on foot the government life-insurance system and organized the New Zealand Public Trusteeship. He was one of the first to advocate imperial federation.
The above material may be found at [1] where full copyright is claimed [2]. However, [3] suggests that the text originates from the 1899 printed edition of the encyclopedia, in which case it could legally be used in Wikipedia provided it was typed in using the printed version as a reference. dramatic 05:09, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Anno Domini 2000
Okay, seeing as there's no reference to published editions, or a plot summary on its own page, I'll take care of those.
User Calibanu 14.24, 11 June 2006.
