The Cambridge History of the British Empire: pt. 1. Australia; advisor Ernest ScottArthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians Cambridge University Press, 1933 - Commonwealth of Nations |
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Page 149
... export , but , here again , discriminating duties placed the colony at a disadvantage . The position was the same with tanning bark and flax ; while import duties were collected at Sydney on timber , oil and coal , which was merely ...
... export , but , here again , discriminating duties placed the colony at a disadvantage . The position was the same with tanning bark and flax ; while import duties were collected at Sydney on timber , oil and coal , which was merely ...
Page 587
... export trade had suffered , exports for August 1914 being below the figure for the same month a year before by £ 1,624,000 . This decline was pronounced in metals , and to a less extent in wool and wheat , and was due , in part , to the ...
... export trade had suffered , exports for August 1914 being below the figure for the same month a year before by £ 1,624,000 . This decline was pronounced in metals , and to a less extent in wool and wheat , and was due , in part , to the ...
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... export of gold from Australia , and when the As- sociated Banks of Victoria agreed to settle their daily differences through a reserve of notes where gold was required before , it was a comparatively easy matter for the Commonwealth ...
... export of gold from Australia , and when the As- sociated Banks of Victoria agreed to settle their daily differences through a reserve of notes where gold was required before , it was a comparatively easy matter for the Commonwealth ...
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