WONDERFUL AUSTRALIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9678, 30 December 1909, Page 4

WONDERFUL AUSTRALIA.

The wonderful productive possibilities o5 Australia "may be. indicated by estinvatiwi results for this year in New South Wales, which are obviously mors amenable to estimate here than those of any other State. Roundly, the 3.1516,000 people in New South Wale*; will produce this 'year to the value or £60,000,000. That allows, as can pretty safeiy b? done, returns as fo]Jow : pastoral industry £21,000,000, agriculture £10,000,GOO, reining £7,000,000, dairying £4,500.000, forests and fisheries £1 ..500,000, primary industries .-£2,000,000. manufactures £14,000,i s oo. It vrAl thus be observed that £46,000,000 oi the total is earned by the primary industries. We have had, in some reapscts, a better vear than m 1907, ways the "Sydney Daily Telegraph,"fbut at that time prices for minerals ran high. This year they are good for wool and wheat, certainly, hat what makes the big figura is big all-round productivity. As an example of progress, the dairyfne industry, which a few years ago Hiad an inconsiderable output, even for the home market which it was then confined to, and which sn the fat year 1907 realised about £3,500,000, this year shows a million more. And of this as ox the other industries of the 30i3 it can be confidently said that there is room for almost incalculable expansion.. The land is there and the markets are available, All that is

warded :s more people to realise the wealth of the soil which tt.is y,. ; -ar 5 with the assistance of manufacturing, will yield £37 pi'.v head of the State popula-

tion, ar\d 315 1907 returned £3B 2a lOd.