124 Statistics of Van Dienien's Land. 



fair revenue derived from the leasing these waste lands, 

 ■which are evidently not rated too high, considering their 

 limited extent, and the competition which exists to obtain 

 them. 



Table 48 is a return by the Inspectors of Stock of the 

 number of sheep and cattle slaughtered for food during the 

 year in our two chief towns. 



Table 49 shows the average daily wages paid to the most 

 useful classes of mechanics in 1848. As compared with 

 1847, those paid to bricklayers, carpenters, and plasterers 

 have fallen, — those to masons are stationary, — while the 

 wages of joiners, painters and plumbers, and quarrymen, 

 have slightly advanced. 



Table 50 is a list of the principal manufactories and 

 trades now in operation in the Colony. In the previous year 

 there were enumerated 20, while the present return mentions 

 39. Some curious and significant particulars are gathered 

 by comparing the two years. Agricultural implement makers 

 show a decline from 76 to 47,* candle-makers from 15 to 

 10, fellmongers from 29 to 17, tanners from 44 to 40; 

 several have remained stationary. The principal increase 

 has been in shipwrights and boat-builders (from 10 to 51), 

 sailmakers from 4 to 0, mast and block makers from 2 to 3 ; 

 Avell agreeing with the increased activity in ship-building in 

 all its branches. Two soap-boilers, it is satisfactory to 

 notice, make their appearance for the first time in this list 

 of trades. 



Table 51 is a return of the net revenue of Van Diemen's 

 Land collected in 1 848, which is stated to be £'129,545 5s. hd. 

 The amount of Customs is £77,151 16.9. Orf., — of which 



* Such a fluctuation seems too cupricious to be accurate. We must there- 

 fore suppose a mistake of nomenclature to have occurred, and that some 

 of the missing numbers have been probably returned as " blacksmitlis" or 

 " wheelwrights." 



