Report of the American Trade Commission on Industrial Conditions in Australasiia, 1914 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: National Association of Manufacturers
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ISBN: 9781330685662
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Excerpt from Report of the American Trade Commission on Industrial Conditions in Australasiia, 1914 As both of these subjects were exhaustively prosecuted, they furnish material for a somewhat lengthy report. Being separate and distinct subjects, they will be treated as such, and the results of our investigations with respect to trade relations will be submitted to you in another and separate report from this one. Commonwealth of Australia. "A White Man's Government" in Australia dates back to 1786, about 18 years after the discovery Of Botany Bay by Capt. Cook, and in which year Port Jackson was founded as a place to which criminals from England were exiled and which afterward was called Sydney, the capital of New South Wales. Then came Tasmania in 1825; Western Australia in 1829; South Australia in 1834; Victoria in 1851; Queensland in 1859, and Northern Territory in 1863. January 1, 1901, these several independent States and their included territories were federated under the name "Commonwealth of Australia," and adopted a Constitution modeled after that of the United States of America, but modified in some particulars. The following statements and figures are based on statistics published by the Commonwealth Statistician. The area of Australia is 2,974,581 square miles-approximately the same as that of the United States, exclusive of Alaska. Its total population, exclusive of full-blooded aborigines who formerly exclusively peopled the country, in 1901 was 3,825,000, and in 1912, 4,733,000, being an increase of 908,000 in 12 years, a yearly average of 75,666. Over one-half the population live in cities. Its most northerly border is at Thursday Island, in Torres Straight, a town of a few hundred people, mostly Japanese, a five days' ride from Brisbane, by water. The principal cities of Australia are Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Hobart. Principal Cities of Australia. Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, is a city of 147,000 people. It is situated on both sides of the Brisbane River, about seven miles from its mouth, where at present the larger ocean steamers dock at Pinkenba, the river being navigable only for ocean steamers of medium draught. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.