The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 7, Part 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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Page 309
... continued to expand by reason of cheap labour applied to an extremely fertile virgin soil , and the adoption in the early ' eighties of the central mill system in crushing the ripe cane . But the two Queenslands were not to settle down ...
... continued to expand by reason of cheap labour applied to an extremely fertile virgin soil , and the adoption in the early ' eighties of the central mill system in crushing the ripe cane . But the two Queenslands were not to settle down ...
Page 316
... continued to out - distance the farmers ' efforts , save in South Australia . Even there the cultivators were constantly baffled by drought and by the easy exhaustion of their fields , while the station men acquired the freehold of ...
... continued to out - distance the farmers ' efforts , save in South Australia . Even there the cultivators were constantly baffled by drought and by the easy exhaustion of their fields , while the station men acquired the freehold of ...
Page 370
... continued and unprecedented increase in the value of city property . There are only 410 acres in the city of Melbourne , and when during the ' eighties it became the centre of the spending of many millions on railway construction , new ...
... continued and unprecedented increase in the value of city property . There are only 410 acres in the city of Melbourne , and when during the ' eighties it became the centre of the spending of many millions on railway construction , new ...
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