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lately been doing much, including the importation of specially selected seed potatoes from 

 England, to encourage the establishment of this form of culture. As illustrating its great 

 potentialities, it is shown by the Department of Agriculture that in the latest year for which 

 particulars are available, from 1,791 acres devoted to potato growing in Western Australia 

 a total yield of 5,864 tons, valued at £73,300, was obtained, or an average yield per acre of 

 3'27 tons, for an average value per acre of £40 18s. 6d. Over a much larger area in Victoria 

 the average yield was 2-60 tons, and the average value per acre £9 9s. 6d., while for the whole 

 Commonwealth the average yield was 2'64 tons and the average value £12 16s. 2d. per acre. 



But besides the farming avocations, which are now being extended rajiidly, there is the 

 Mining industry in the East and North- West, which has gained the greatest fame for Western 

 Australia. Gold alone, since the year 1886, has been produced to the value of over 108 millions 

 sterling, and about 23 millions has been paid in dividends by mining companies. 



As the development of highly specialised machinery for the recovery of gold proceeds and 

 railways are extended, it is to be believed that further opportunities for investment in this 

 great industry will be presented, especially in the many low-grade propositions which are 

 now only awaiting capital for their development. 



Western Australia also produces many of the baser metals, such as Copper, Tin, Tantalite, 

 Lead, &c., wliile the production of a sound coal is annually rising, and a successful bunkering 

 trade with ocean-going vessels has been opened up. 



In connection with the dairying industry the Government have devised a scheme of libera 

 assistance for the settlers at Denmark, which will no doubt be carried further as its success 

 justifies the adoption of a more general plan. The district of Denmark, once utilised for its 

 hardwood timbers, is situated in a cool, regular, and beautiful climate in the extreme South of 

 Western Australia, some distance from the port of Albany. This district is now being cut 

 up by the Government for dairy-farming and the production of root crops. 



In order to provide the settlers with the means to carry on this industry successfully and 

 with marketing facilities the Government have authorised the Agricultural Bank to advance 

 to them two-thirds of the purchase money for stock, to be repaid in instalments of 2s. a week, 

 and the Agricultural Department will supjjly the use of stud bulls at a nominal fee. A State 

 farm has already been established in the locality, and a creamery or butter factory is to be 

 erected on this farm, at which will be purchased the whole of the settlers' milk or cream at 

 current market rates. The butter factory is to be erected on an up-to-date model, in order 

 that the settlers may be able at any future time to co-operate and build a similar one for 

 themselves or take over the State factory. Railway communication with Perth, the capital, 

 and Albany, is already established, and the settlers are so well satisfied with the Government 

 scheme that already applications have been made for over 200 dairy cows, and as soon as the 

 plan is in full operation it is anticipated that many times this number will be asked for. 



For its pearl fisheries in the North-West the State has long been famous, and the value 

 of the export of pearls and shell in 1911 was £340,764 The industries hitherto mentioned 

 are already on a sound basis, and while many of them will expand and continuously afford 

 openings for the emplo5m;ient of capital and labour, some of the most attractive opportunities 

 are now presented for investment in secondary industries arising out of the rapid growth of 

 primary pursuits. Examples are the woollen industry, in connection with which it should 

 prove profitable to start mills; many industries, such as the local manufacture of implements — 

 encouraged by special preferential legislation — in connection with wheat-growing, and jam- 

 making as a bi-product of the fruit-growing industry. This form of production seems, 

 indeed, to have exceedingly bright prospects. Western Australian apples, grapes and pears 

 continue to obtain higher prices than any other on the London and Continental Markets, 

 and there is a likelihood of a substantial trade being opened up with India. 



So far as the occupation of land for cultivation is concerned, the terms offered by the 

 Government are perhaps the most liberal in the world, and as there are vast areas still to be 

 settled, the outlook before both primary and secondary industries is exceedingly bright. It 

 would, indeed, be difficult to rival in any State in a similar stage of development the opportuni- 

 ties afforded for the remunerative employment of capital and labour that are now presented 

 by Western Australia. Endowed by nature with a mild and benign climate, the State of 

 Western Australia, especially in the fertile and well-watered South- West, is providing and 

 will provide thousands of happy homes for British people who are building up a new and 

 brighter Britain beyond the Seas. 



