Excerpt from The Australian Commonwealth, Its Resources and Production, 1915 The figures, in general, are those furnished in the seventh official year book OF the commonwealth, giving statistics for the period 1901-1913, and issued under the authority of the Right Honourable andrew fisher, p.o., m.p Prime Minister and Treasurer. To this work reference may be made for more detailed information. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.