Advertisements. xiii 



WESTERN AUSTRALIA 



Sunny Western Australia, comprising nearly a million square miles of country, 

 offers excellent opportunities to. investors and to agriculturists. The progress 

 in a great variety of industries during recent years has Ijeen remarkable, 

 and the work of development has only just begun. 



Liberal Government Help for Dairy Farmers. 



At present the Government are concentrating on the settlement of the 

 South-West, and are paying especial attention to the development of dairying 

 and fruit growing. 



The terms of occupation offered by the Government for land intended for 

 cultivation are the most liberal in the British Empire, and vast areas still 

 remain to be settled. 



Great Progress in Wheat Growing. 



In the wide areas east of the Darling Eange wheat growing, combined 

 with sheep farming and mixed farming generally, is now conducted with 

 excellent results, the yield of wheat having risen from 956,886 bushels in the 

 season ended February, 1902, to an estimate of 14,000,000 bushels for 1913-14. 

 In the same division, but more to the west and south, there are vast forests 

 of timber. 



Fruit-Growing Area increases 2,000 Acres 



Every Year. 



There is also a growing fruit industry in the Darling Eanges and in other 

 parts of the South-West, to the ultimate extension of which it would be diffi- 

 cult to set limits. It is anticipated that over 100,000 cases of apples and 

 grapes will be shipped to London and Hamburg this season. Over 20,000 

 acres have been planted with fruit trees and vines, and the area under fruit 

 is increasing at the rate of about 2,000 acres a year. 



Other industries showing remarkable progress are Wool-growing and 

 Sheep-raising, the cultivation of Eoot and Fodder Crops, Mining and the 

 Pearl Fisheries. 



Opportunities for Investors. 



The rapid growth of Western Australia's primary and secondary industries 

 and the Government's progressive settlement policy are highly faveurable 

 indications from the point of view of the investor. This go-ahead State presents 

 op])ortunities for the remunerative employment of capital and labour not sur- 

 passed by any land in the world. 



The Agent-General, Sir Newton J. Moore, K.C.M.G., 15 Victoria Street, 

 Westminster, S.W., will gladly send full information about the Mineral, 

 Pastoral, Agricultural, Horticultural, and Timber resources of Western Australia 

 to all who are interested. 



