Trade of Australasia. 



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ditions.* Horses are shipped to India for cavalry remounts, 

 and colonial bred horses have been exported occasionally to 

 the United Kingdom. 



Other articles of agricultural produce exported from 

 Australasia include fruit (mainly Tasmanian apples), rabbits, 

 poultry, eggs, and honey, but the value of the shipments of 

 these products is inconsiderable. Tasmania sends between 

 ;£40,ooo and ;£5o,ooo worth of apples to the United Kingdom 

 yearly, but the bulk of the produce of the orchards of the 

 island is consigned to the mainland of Australia. 



Australia is for the most part self supporting so far as 

 regards food products, and the imports of agricultural 

 produce into the seven colonies from the United Kingdom 

 and other foreign countries amount in value to only about 

 half a million sterling annually. New South Wales, New 

 Zealand, and Queensland are the largest consumers of foreign 

 food products. The principal articles imported from abroad 

 by the first-named colony are condensed milk, malt and hops,, 

 and fruit. Queensland imports large quantities of brew ing 

 materials, and New Zealand's chief purchases are fruit, seeds,, 

 and manures. 



*The largest shipments were made in 1895, when New South Wales sen 1,400 

 cattle and 800 sheep ; Queensland, 250 cattle ; New Zealand, 1,800 sheep ; and South 

 Australia 210 sheep ; all to the United Kingdom. 



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