DTHE COMMONWEALTH YEAR BOOK

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 76, 22 December 1917, Page 6

DTHE COMMONWEALTH YEAR BOOK

The "Official Year Book of Uie Gommonwealth of Australia'' is a model publication of its kind. Its latest issue —a volume containing corrected statistics for the whole period of Australian settlement, from 1788 to 1916—retains hensivo and accessible, and vjo wclupensablo "work of reference, ybilo its scope has been so extended in a'■ n 1 ber of directions as to givo it added value. 'Tlio statists of tlio Commonwealth and its component States are presented in a form at onco comprehensive and accessible, and the inclusion of tho total available information in the more important branches 'Or statistics facilitates a comparative survey of tli© evolution of the Commonwealth, and that of other ".nuntnes. In reducing to orderly shape & vast mass of material illustrating tho dovelopmcnt of Australia, the Commonwealth (Statistician has made extensive use of graphs and diagrams, which usefully assist an appreciation oi factors of growth and dccliue, and' materially assist nccessary comparisons. In every case, however the statistical data aro also given in extenso- numerically. Special articles in the latest- \ear Book dealing with "Australian Eucalyptus •.Timbers" and : "Tho Chemical Products of Australian Eucalvpts, are of .particular interest and valtio as directing attention 'to a source of potential wealth—tho indigenous which. Australia, "in common with Now Zealand and somo otlier countries, has in the past unwisely neglected. As- a wholo, the Year Book seems to fully maintain the high standard set in previous years by tlio Commonwealth Statisticia'n (Mr. -Kriibbs) and' his assistants. .