Price of Wheat, over 40 Harvest-Yews, 1852-3 to 1891-2. 99 
imports, reckoned at 60 lb. per bushel instead of, as formerly, the 
home at 61 lb. and the foreign at 60§ lb. per bushel ; also reckon- 
ing 72 parts “ wheat-meal and flour,” instead of, as formerly, 
80*77, or 80 to correspond to 100 of wheat ; and lastly with 
the corrected population. It also shows the percentage of the 
total available supply from home and foreign sources respectively. 
Appendix-Table II. further shows the average Gazette price 
of the home wheat per quarter ; and the calculated price per 
quarter of the imported wheat, according to the Trade and 
Navigation Returns, as will be explained farther on, for each 
harvest-year ; the aggregate value of the wheat available within 
each harvest-year, both home and imported ; also the aggre- 
gate value of the wheat estimated to be required, and the value 
per head, each year. 
Before referring to the general and very important indica- 
tions of this very comprehensive Table, it will be well to discuss 
the influence, on the results, of the several individual alterations 
adopted in it. 
First as to the population The basis of the corrections 
subsequently adopted by the Registrar-General has already been 
explained (p. 78). It would serve little useful purpose to 
take up space by showing the corrections for each individual 
year, but a comparison of the columns showing the population 
each year, in the Appendix-Table I. uncorrected, and in the 
Appendix-Table II. corrected, will supply detailed information on 
the point. It will suffice here to point out the direction and range 
of the alterations over the several periods. 
In the intercensal years from 1861 to 1871, and from 1871 
to 1881, there is a progressively increasing addition made from 
the first to the last year from census to census in each case. 
This ranges over the first of the two intercensal periods, from 
between 2,000 and 3,000 in the first, to more than 400,000 in 
the last year of the ten ; and over the second of these periods 
of ten years each, from about 26,000 in the first to about 18,000 
in the last of the ten years. On the other hand, from 1881 to 
1890 inclusive, there is, instead of an addition, a reduction in a 
greater proportion than the former additions. The reduction 
ranges from about 72,000 in 1882, to nearly 740,000 in 1890. 
These statements relate to the returns of the Registrar- 
General, given for the middle of the year, that is, for the end of 
June in each case. But it is to be borne in mind that, in our 
Tables, the figures are given, not for the middle of the civil, 
but of the harvest-year; that is, for the end of February. 
The effects of the corrections above referred to on our eight- 
yearly periods of harvest-years are as follows : — Over the eight- 
