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It is difficult to present a clear view of all such considerations 

 without reference to some familiar concrete illustration relating to 

 the numbers, character, and average earnings of the different 

 grades of the machinery of productive services required in the work 

 of producing the necessary wants of any one country. As an aid 

 in this direction, I have, in the following table, prepared a roughly 

 approximate estimate relating to Tasmania's experience in the 

 year 1911, showing some of the more important factors governing 

 the relative " purchasing power " of the various classes of working 

 " breadwinners " thus : — 



Estimated Production, Distribution, and Appropriation 

 of the Year's Supply of " Consumable Wealth " in Tasmania 

 (year 1911); showing also, approximately, the Proportion and 

 Extent of the Physical Forces Expended by Human and 

 ' ' Allied Auxiliary Forces ' ' in the Work of Production and 

 Distribution. 



