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TASMANIA.
The area of first-class agricultural land being limited and mining on the decline, A PLAYGROUND FOR TOURISTS: the establishment of other industries is required to attract population to, and Tasmanis, in area and population, is keep it in, Tasmania, Hope lies in the the baby of the Australian Common-field of secondary industry. The Hydro- wealth family, though in age as a British Electric Works, administered by a Gov- Colony of the South Seas it is coupon-ernment Department and drawing power tively venerable. The first settlers were from the Great Lake, about so miles from implanted in 1907. It was then a distant Hobart, provide power at a price that part of the Colony of New South Wales, cannot be matched elsewhere in Ans but set up for itself 2 years later and tralin, and the climate of the island is was granted responsible government, in ideal for manufacturing. The British firms
of Cadbury, Fry, and Pascall have built) 1986).
great factory a few miles from the capital, where they make odcon and sweets Of all kinds the Electrolytic Zine Company produce zine worth £1,320,000 a year
The Island State is one-third of the size of Victoria, the next smallest State of the Commonwealth, its greatest length from north to youth being 130 miles, and from east to west 100 miles, the total area, including islands, being square miles-about the size of Scotland This bald outline might suggest a
The
Tasmania has to thank its hydro- electric scheme for both of these great establishments and it is hoped that other manufacturing industries will follow in their wake. Should the projected paper- handy little country with its people tlp works in the north-west, tear living, working and exchanging products Burnie, be established. Knes from the in close contact with one another. physical features of Tasmania, however, Great Lake (ar Waddamanna) station make for scattered settlement and dif. will reach arross to supply the motive power. and the establishment by a cult and costly means of communication. British firm of a big textile enterprise
is
Whether it comes down Neatly 23 per cent. of the population contained within the boundaries of His in the air. bart, the capital. half that number into solid earth depends upon various con- the capital of the north, gracies, but at least cheap power, a and about another 20,000 in the chief suitable climate, and a safe harbour centres of the north-west, of which the Derwent capable of taking the grit est ships of the world at the wharfsid Burnie and Devonport are the principal at low water, beckon alluringiy.
Launceston,
towns.
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A continual succession of bills and mountains, mostly snow-topped in winter, with deep gullies thickly clothed with towering timber and dense under-growth, give entrancing entertainment to the holiday-maker but preclude continuous Part of settlement and development. the southern-west coast is quite in-
POLITICAL TROUBLES., Politically. Tasmania is usually poised delicately between the Labour Party and the other-or others. The proportional representation electoral system deines the political colour-f-the-State so nicely that in the days of two parties neither could count upon a substantial working majority. With the creation of a Country Party at the expense of the Nationalist strength it has become almost impossibl for any one section to predominate over
combination of the others.
habited, and so rough and rugged is the country and forbidding the coast line that a part et remains to be explored."
Hobart is the political and social capital of the State, but it is certainly not the centre of the trade and industry
"The present administration is nomi- of Tasmania. Railway communication, between the south and north-west is slow ally Labour: but it bears as much re expensive. and. irksome. It is easier and lation to, say, the Labour Party of New quicker to cross the 140 miles of Bass South Wales or Queensland as the tiger Strait to Melbourny than to undertake does to the domestic eat. The Lyons the tiresome railway journey from the Ministry has kept its hold on the Treasury north-western seaboard to Hobart. Con benches by the votes of six Nationalists. sequently, for purposes of trude the who are wearied of successive years of north-west province is virtually a suburb solid deficits which were whirling the of Melbourne, and a considerable pro-State down the rapids to bankruptcy. portion of its population toow the The present Government has redeemed Victorian capital as well as if not better its pledge to turn the financial tide and promises to show a substantial surplus at than their own.
the close of the financial year on June 30th next. The Premier has secured as sistance from the Federal powers by giving an earnest of reform at home, though the form of the Commonwealth bounty leaves something to be desired.
A BAR TO PROGRESS. This separation of the main groups of the population is a distinct obstacle to the progress of the State. Tasmania does not speak with one voice: the opinion of the north is not that of the south: thas the bitterness against the Federal boud that Hobart expresses, jy not shared to any extent by Launceston and Burnie The richly productive north-west looks to the mainland as the principal market, for its potatoes,hay, onts, and fit
the Exports from south, principally apples. hops. and wool, are taken in ofersea boats to the markets of the older world.
A Tasmanian industry is the pro- motion of the big sweepstakes known as Tattersalls." it embraces all turf rats of any magnitude in Australia, and while the Federal Post Office sternly. banned, and hans, postal matter address
to its headquarters, the Federal Treasurer levied at the source a. tax upon the prize money. This the Commonwealth has consented to forgo, and as it amounts to something like £120,000 a year, needy Tasmania, like Pooh Bah in The Mikado, can do nothing but pocket the insult. -
for
Hobart is the radiating centre for the thousands of mainland tourists who visit
The shipping strike at the beginning the island to enjoy its cool climate and
The of the tourist season before it had fairly beautiful scenery in the summer. tourist traffe provides a harvest for the begud was a severa blow; but thoughtful traders, hotel keepers, and motor-car pro- Tusmannians realize that solid prosperity be built upon the two I's, prietors of the capital, and load are their cannot Lamentations when the seamen or water-Tourists and Tattersalls, and are looking kide workers, or both, dam' the tident to the State's industrial resources
population and wealth. its source, by going on strike.
Tasmania has much to attract the po- pulations of the sister capitals across the straits. There is mountain scenery of infinite variety, forests that can hardly be natched for glory elsewhere in Aus tralia, and numerous streams and lakest literally teeming with English fish. The trout and sulmore with which the waters were stocked from the homeland have The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New thriven amazingly. Brown trout weigh York, is placed on the horns of a dilemma ing up to 351b, and rainbow trout of 15lb by the will of the late "copper king," the are not uncommon captives to the ud former Senator William Clarke, who re- cently died leaving a fortune estimated and line of the skilled angler.
Tasmania, Lows nothing of the severe at £20,000,000. droughts which periodically visit the
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£650,000-BEQUEST. CONDITION THAT DEPRIVES A MUSEUM OF IT,
This condition runs directly counter to The conne- the policy of the museum. quence is that the collection will prob
bly go to the Corcoran Gallery of Art At Washington.
NOTICE.
The late Mr. Clarke leaves his entire mainland of the Commonwealth; but art collection, worth £650,000, to the within its small compass there is remark-museum, but attaches to the bequest the able variation in rainfall. The wettest condition that the treasures must he ex- district of the west coast soddens under hibited as a whole and not divided. 130in. of rain in the year; the driest of the eastern Midlands experiences there lative aridity of 18in. On the whole the island is not remarkably productive, but its richest land very fertile. The annual value of its agricultural produce is about £3,600,000, of which apples represent from £700,000 to £500.000 and hops Buctuate be- tween £290,000 and £150,000. The annual production (on the latest available Sgures) of the principal crups is :-Oats, 1,700,000 bashels; wheat,570,000 bushels hay peas, 400,000 bushels; potatoes. 100,000 HE TRADE-MARK Shown tons. But the small population (under Below is registered in Hong- 220,000) provides an inadequate local market and producers are dependent too kong by the Registrar of Trade- much on the export trade. The pastoral marks as the property of Messrs. industry is in a healthy position owing RECKITT & Boxs, Lro.. HULL, to the high price of wool, the season's clip being worth nearly a million sterling, ENGLAND. Infringement of this while the valde of dairy produce is over Trade-mark in Hongkong is £600,000, and on timber something more illegal and is subject to the usual penalties under Merchandise Marks Act.
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MINERAL WEALTH.
With production in 1923 worth over one million sterling, the mineral wealth of Tasmanin is yet considerable, but the pulmy days of the fields are of the past That wonderful hill of tin, Mouat Bischoff, discovered la' 1871, in stili, prod ducing after having yielded over 12,000,000 worth of the metal The rich deposits of Mount Lyell, discovered in 1888, have produced 191,355 tone of pure copper, 13,319,2850z. of silver, and 389.075oz. of gold, and mining is still going on, although with a vastly diminish cd margin of profit. Altogether the mines of Tasmania have produced precious and base metals between the years 1860 and 1924 to the value of pearly £50,000,000, At the present time it appears that, a aerious effort will be made to exploit the immense beds of oil shale in the Mersey Valley, which bare only been touched apasmodically in the past.
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