What was the Value of the Wool in 1913?
£6,296,000.
What was the Value of the Imports and Exports in 1913?
Imports (oversea only), £6,714,942; Exports (oversea only), £12,352,748; total, £19,067,690. The above figures do not, of course, include interstate transactions. It is reasonable to assume that the total value of the imports and exports would be, at least, doubled.
On what Area could a Man Profitably Grow Wool?
On a grazing farm of 20,000 acres, with a capital of £4,000, he could make a net income of £600 to £1,000 a year.
Are there Larger Areas than this?
Some of the stations carry from 100,000 to 200,000 sheep, and are over 1,000 square miles in area. One is 5,000 square miles in area.
Mining Employees.
There are 12,393 men employed in and around mines in Queensland.