TASMANIA : FROM A MANUFACTURING AND 

 IMMIGRATION POINT OF VIEW, AND HER 

 NATURAL ADVANTAGES. 



By A. O. Green, 



(Read May 12th, 1903.) 



When we read of twenty thousand immigrants arriving in 

 the north-west of Canada in a single month, it seems hard 

 to account for the very slow increase of the population in 

 Tasmania, especially when her many advantages are con- 

 sidered. 



It is the object of this paper to enumerate these advan- 

 tages. In doing so, it will be necessary to state some things 

 that are self-evident to us ; but it is good to recognise the 

 advantages of the land we live in, and, if the knowledge can 

 be communicated to others, it may tend to the success of 

 the object in view, namely, to increase our preseut population 

 of about one hundred and eighty thousand people very 

 considerably. 



Our small population has been one reason of our fewness, 

 as in the past, owing to artificial divisions among the States 

 of what is now the Commonwealth of Australia ; our produce 

 was shut out from the markets of the mainland, so that 

 practically we could only deal with the small population of 

 the Island. Now oar local customers, owing to the Federa- 

 tion of Australia, number nearly four millions, and a great 

 impulse has been given to the trade of the Island, which if 



