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 184
... WOOL TRADE AND THE SQUATTERS ONE of the mysteries of Australian history is the way in which wool , from being dumped in waste hillocks in Hobart and Sydney , became the country's staple , and in time ousted Spanish and German supplies ...
... WOOL TRADE AND THE SQUATTERS ONE of the mysteries of Australian history is the way in which wool , from being dumped in waste hillocks in Hobart and Sydney , became the country's staple , and in time ousted Spanish and German supplies ...
Page 185
... 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.1 This was the time when the sheepmasters in the colony were ...
... 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.1 This was the time when the sheepmasters in the colony were ...
Page 260
... wool that could not be passed on to the consumer . For the consumer was the British market , which had other resources for wool beside Australia . It seemed , therefore , that the staple industry of the country was about to pass into a ...
... wool that could not be passed on to the consumer . For the consumer was the British market , which had other resources for wool beside Australia . It seemed , therefore , that the staple industry of the country was about to pass into a ...
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