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AUSTRALIA - AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY IN GENERAL 



Tai3LE XI. — Government loans to farmers (iQog-io to 1913-14). 



Balance outstanding at 30 June 



1912 



N. S. Wales (i) . . . . 



Victoria 



Queensland 



S. Australia (3) . . . . 



W. Australia 



Tasmania 



Commonwealth 



(2) 795,113 



(2) 1,308,425 



163,640 



710,316 



935,960 



8,521 



928,086 

 1,306,657 

 206,997 

 819,818 

 gy6,8ii 

 13,561 



1.074.358 



1.343,834 

 305.652 

 966,670 



1,280,732 

 16,592 



3,921,975 4,251,930 



4,987,838 



1.396,336 

 1,511,798 



470.795 

 1,150,020 



i,S83,957\ 

 21,089 



2,297,981 



1,676,432 



636,790 



1,264,417 



2,331,959 

 36,965 



6,433.9951 8,244,544 



(i) At 31 Dec. prior, except in 1914. 



(2) After deduction of special principal payments in advances. 



(3) Includes balances to farmcis, and other producers and to local bodies on the security of the 



At the latest date for which returns common to the States are avail- 

 able. Western Australia had greater outstanding balances with its farmers 

 than any other State. 



Loan operations relatively to number of farms. — When the loan oper- 

 ations of the bank are contrasted with those of the other States, the 

 figures become still more striking when account is taken of the actual 

 number of farmers in the various States. In Table XII are stated the total 

 number of holdings of all sizes alienated or in process of alienation in the 

 several States in 1914, the outstanding loan balances in the same year, 

 and finally the amount which each farm would carry if the balance in each 

 State were equally distributed among the holdings. The data for Queens- 

 land are not available. 



