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Around this iirst collection of huts a town gradually grow up ; it long rosistod 

 modernizing influences, hut is now a thriving place, the chief industries hoing poultry- 

 rearing, dairy-farming, wool-washing and fellmongering. The Collingwood Paper Mill, 

 established some years hack at a large outlay, and built upon the left hank of the 

 George's River, is now the best of its kind in Australia, employing a number of hands 





TI-IK COLLINGWOOD PATER MILL, LIVEKI'oi U . 



and turning out paper of an excellent quality. The River, whose banks are the site of 

 most of the industries of the place, is navigable for vessels of moderate draught as far as 

 the town, where in the early clays a dam was constructed to bank back the fresh water. 

 One of the more famous institutions of Liverpool is Moore College, situated but a 

 short distance from the town, a seminary endowed by private munificence for the purpose 

 of teaching youths intended for the ministry of the Anglican Church. It has been 



