INDUSTRIES DEPENDING ON ANIMAI. PRODUCTS 1695 



Oceania : 



Australia and Tasmania 5^9 775 000 



New Zealand. 197 S66 914 



767 841 914 

 Other countries 100 000 



Total, Oceania 767 141 914 



Total, World S 836 519 000 



Sttmmarising, the variotis parts of the world in order of production 

 are as fohows : 



Lbs. of wool 



Europe 803 400 043 



America 785 i so 707 



Oceania 767 141 9^4 



Asia 273 146000 



Africa 207 680 470 



Australasian production of ivool. — The oversea export of wool during 

 the statistical year ended June 30 amounted to i 6ig 259 bales from the 

 Austrahan Commonwealth and 510 656 bales from New Zealand, the for 

 mer being an increase of 43 571 bales as compared with the preceding 

 season and the latter a decrease of 51 358 bales. These figures do not, 

 however, provide anything like a true index of the state of production 

 for the past season, because of the heavy carry-over of 1914-1915 clip 

 wools (approximately 200.000 bales) to the 1915-1916 season while there 

 remained unshipped on June 30 about 65 000 bales. The actual produc- 

 tion of wool in Australia for export during the 1915-1916 season can there- 

 fore be set down as i 484 000 bales as compared with i 775 000 bales 

 for 1914-1915. For New Zealand the corresponding figures are 510 656 and 

 562 014 respectively. Adding together the Commonwealth and New Zea- 

 land figures, a total Australasian production of i 994 656 bales is obtained 

 as compared with 2 337 014 bales for the previoutis season (or a decrease 

 of 342014 bales). Taking the comparison back two seasons, the figures 

 show a falling off in production for export of 532.807 bales since 1913-1914. 



The I 994 656 bales produced averaged 3 227 lbs. in weight, so that 

 the ac'^ial wool output for 1915-1916 was 654 032 880 lbs. The distribu- 

 tion ot he output is given in Table III. As special features of the season, 

 it ma- be pointed out that America, Italy and Japan ]mrchased large 

 quanliiies of wool while the United Kingdom only took 41 per cent of 

 the total sales as against 64 per cent the previous year. The financial state- 

 ments of the sales in the different markets were as follows : 



