The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 7, Issue 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Great Britain |
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ENGLISH INDUSTRY AND AUSTRALIAN WOOL 185 place . Germany in 1834 sent England 62,553 bales as compared with Spain's dwindling 14,000 , while Australia had unobtrusively crept up to a total of 16,279 bales . This was the time when the ...
ENGLISH INDUSTRY AND AUSTRALIAN WOOL 185 place . Germany in 1834 sent England 62,553 bales as compared with Spain's dwindling 14,000 , while Australia had unobtrusively crept up to a total of 16,279 bales . This was the time when the ...
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It seemed , therefore , that the staple industry of the country was about to pass into a decline . But the gold discoveries , which were depriving the wool industry of its labour , sending up its costs of production and reducing its ...
It seemed , therefore , that the staple industry of the country was about to pass into a decline . But the gold discoveries , which were depriving the wool industry of its labour , sending up its costs of production and reducing its ...
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The only industry that successfully weathered the disturbances of the period was the manufacture of refined sugar . It treated raw sugar , mostly of East Indian production , and its output grew from 74,000 cwt . in 1851 , to 113,600 cwt ...
The only industry that successfully weathered the disturbances of the period was the manufacture of refined sugar . It treated raw sugar , mostly of East Indian production , and its output grew from 74,000 cwt . in 1851 , to 113,600 cwt ...
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Contents
AUSTRALIA | 1 |
The South Australian Association | 5 |
The three Climatic Belts | 7 |
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 7, Issue 1 The Cambridge History of the British Empire, John Holland Rose |
| Editors | John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell |
| Publisher | The University Press, 1929 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Dec 2006 |
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