members of the Legislature as it had been possible to invite, 

 what these so-called second-class lands of Western Australia were 

 capable of in the growth of the vine, that the excursion of that day 

 had been arranged. Those present were sitting in sight of land 

 that he knew well, as it had formerly been his property. While he 

 owned it he had not set a high value upon it for grazing purposes. 

 It was, in fact, land of a character of which the colony possessed 

 hundreds of thousands of acres, and they saw what the owners of 

 Carlisle had made of it. They had shown that the colony possessed 

 a most valuable asset in such land that, in fact, it grew vines to 

 perfection, if it were properly and carefully cultivated. This fact 

 was of immense importance at a time when special encouragement 

 was needed to induce men to put their money and their 

 efforts into cultivation a time when people were much 

 more prone to try to get rich at a bound by a lucky invest- 

 ment in mining. The time might come when it would not be 

 necessary to offer such special inducements to reclaim and develop 

 the soil as it was now, but at the present time the Bureau had felt 

 impelled to take some steps towards endeavoring to add to the 

 producing resources of the colony and to turn the public lands to 

 the best account. Especially was this desirable at a time when it 

 was necessary to introduce co-operative effort, instead of leaving the 

 production of grapes and wine to be carried out in the vineyards 

 and the cellars of large capitalists. The question was exercising 

 the minds of vignerons in Victoria as to how they could obtain a 

 proper return for their grapes, without sacrificing too much of the 

 profits by selling to the wine merchants. The question having 

 presented itself to the members of the Bureau, of which he had the 

 honor to be chairman, they had thought it would be well to take 

 the initiative before a glut in the harvest of the vineyards occurred. 

 Having regard to the enormous expense of laying down a wine- 

 making plant, the Bureau was in favor of asking the Government 

 to find the money for district wineries, the loan to be advanced on 

 proper security. When it was remembered that in addition to 

 making the wine there had to be accommodation for storing it, it 

 would be perceived that a large amount of money would be 

 required, more than could be expected to be found by the vigneron. 

 Moreover, the district wineries would, under the management of an 

 expert, produce wine of a first-class quality, which would find its 

 place in the markets of the world. If this scheme was carried out 

 Western Australia would be acting upon the methods pursued in 

 the best wine-making countries, and one that would be calculated 

 to give a stimulus to vineyard cultivation. The great expense of 

 clearing land, tending vines, and waiting for the yield, should be 

 borne in mind, and should strengthen the appeal that it was pro- 

 posed to make to the Government. There were, of course, some 

 little difficulties to be overcome, but he did not see why co-opera- 

 tive wine-making could not be carried out by this colony in the 



