136 THE PROGRESS OF NEW SOUTH WALES—1872 To 1881.. 
£388,451, and Wear 260, 8 bushels, valued at £58,642—_ 
£447, 093 ; whilst in 1871 we imported—of flour, 18, 161 tons, 
valued at £255,484, and by 1,041,496 bushels, valued at 
£286, 164—£541, 648. 1 think it will be found that the importa 
tions of bread food have averaged half-a-million sterling annually, — 
which represents five millions of hard cash gone out of the Colony — 
during the ten years. 
Sugar —The expansion of our sugar industry has been very 
marked. On the 3lst March, 1872, we had 4,393 acres under — 
cultivation, of which nearly one-half was productive and yielded — 
1,241 tons of sugar. On the 3lst March, 1881, we had under — 
cultivation 10,971 acres, of which 4,465 were productive, aa and 
yieided 7,300 tons of sugar, at the rate of nearly 13 ton per acre 
and of the aggregate value of over £200,000. Whether this is — 
- destined to become a permanent industry amongst us we cannot 
yet tell. It must of necessity be confined to the narrow limits 
of our northern seaboard. As yet there is no indication of any 
thing Spanair “ the profitable cultivation of sugar in the way 
of such as the white ant in Northern Australia; 
but the me susceptible to injury from the severe frosts 
which visit ts higher lands removed from the coast. 
Vineyards .—We commenced the sopret with 4,152 acres 
imated 
602 >, 007 gallons of wine and 6,628 een of brandy. ; 
noticeable a gradual but not a rapid development of this industty, 
Gold. The ene industry has languished. In 1871 5 : 
mining population produced 321,468 ounces, of the value a 
£1,232,011, whilst in 1881 the produce was only 190,445 02s. 
the value of £396,954. The number of persons engaged in the 
_ to 20,000, ‘whilst by the late Census the number of persons 
“es gold-mining did aoe much exceed 10,000. There have ‘ 
produced during the ears under review 2,095,651 ozs., of 
eget vente: valnp £6 £7,643,65 ompared with 3. 3,520, 515 Oty 
of the aggregate value of £13, 113,205, during ner "decade which 
preceded i Tam not sure whether 
