A COLLIERY IN NEW SOUTH WALES 



Australia is rich in natural resources, and riot least among them is coal. This product 

 forms one of the most valued yields of New South Wales, the total area of carboniferous 

 strata in this State being estimated at about 24,000 square miles. Much of the coal is shipped 

 from the city of Newcastle, an important commercial center, on Port Hunter, about a hundred 

 miles by rail north of Sydney. This city has excellent wharfage facilities and the docks 

 extend along the shore for nearly three miles. Its total tonnage of exports in a given time 

 frequently exceeds even that of Sydney itself. 



The truth is that it is hard to imagine 

 a relationship between a mother country 

 and peoples who recognize allegiance to 

 that mother country under which the 

 mother country could exercise less real 

 control than under the three governments 

 which I have thus inadequately described. 



Of course, in each the King has been 

 represented by his Governor General, and 

 in each there is some power, but rarely 

 used, to veto legislation on imperial 

 grounds. There is, as already said, an 

 appeal to the Privy Council — absolute in 

 the case of Canada and the South Afri- 

 can Union, but qualified in the Austra- 

 lian Commonwealth. 



Chastened by her experiences in the 



war of the American Revolution, learn- 

 ing in her dealings with her people and 

 their government in the furthermost 

 parts of the earth how to promote their 

 happiness and thus to treasure their love, 

 Great Britain is now reaping her reward. 



Canada has sent abroad 125,000 troops 

 to reinforce the British army and has 

 125,000 more ready to go. The proposal 

 now is to increase this number — and it 

 will probably be carried out — to 500,000 

 men, or one-sixteenth of the entire popu- 

 lation of Canada. Canada is spending 

 over Si, 000,000 a day in support of this 

 military policy. 



She has existing heavy obligations in- 

 curred in the construction of railways bv 



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