These figures must be accepted with a certain degree of caution. In each state a considerable number of juvenile workers is employed, but only in Victoria is their actual strength ascertained, and as the average weekly wage paid in any establishment would depend to a large extent on the proportion of juvenile labour employed, a fair comparison is impossible while that information is lacking. 959 INDEX. Aborigines, 187 Absentee Incomes, 314 Adelaide, Annual Value, 702 Advances to Farmers, 285 Pursuits, Employment in, 904 Agriculture, 240 Area under Cultivation, 243 1850-1858, 614 Increase of, 244 Value of Crops, 240 Alcohol, Consumption of, 464 Alien Races, 188 Alum, 232 Angora Goats, 415 Antimony, 218 Anthracite, 230 Apatite, 233 Cast of, 426 Export of Live, 427 Slaughtering Returns, 411 Census, Agricultural Labourers at, 294 Grade of Workers, 911 Population of Chief Cities, 172 The Commercial Class, 908 The Professional Class, 911 Centralisation of Population, 171 Chatham Islands, 52 Cheese, Consumption of, 525 Prices since 1820, 538 Chronological Tables, 69, 84 Jewish, 299 Presbyterian, 297 Coal- Export of, 225 Miners employed, 229 Production of Australasia, 228 Quantity raised per Miner, 225 Queensland, 226 South Australian, 227 Victorian, 227 Western Australian, 227 Cocoa, Consumption of, 529 Commerce, 864 (see also Trade) Commodities, Prices of, 537 Commonwealth, External Trade of, 877 Customs and Excise, 776 Posts and Telegraphs, 782 diture, 1903-4, 775 Revenue and Expenditure, 1901, 770 Companies, Investment, 725 Tax, Tasmania, 813 Western Australia, 810 Conciliation and Arbitration, 653 Conjugal Condition, 180 Constitutional Diseases, Deaths from, 683 Constitution of the Commonwealth, 111 of the States- New South Wales, 135 Queensland, 154 South Australia, 156 Western Australia, 159 Convictions, 459-468 Cook Islands, 53 Copper, 209 New South Wales, 210 Production of Australasia, 213 South Australia, 210 Victoria, 212 Western Australia, 212 Cost of Living, 534 Crime, 457 Serious, 466 Crisis, Financial, 1893, 645 Customs and Excise Collections, 899 Commonwealth, 776, 895 Divorce, 472 Domestic Produce, Exports of, 885 Dunedin, Rainfall of, 59 Customs Duties, Average Rate in each Early Closing Legislation, 648 State, 897 Cost of Collection, 899 Dairy Farming, 428 Education, 500 at Census periods, 522 Diffusion of, 516 Progress of, 521 Employment in, 436 Dates, Consumption of, 529 Death Rates, Age Groups, 671 Deaths, 666 Deposits, in Banks, 719 Technical, 519 Factories. (See Manufactories.) Representation, Quota for. 106 Female Labour in Factories. 918 Effect of Federation on, 784 Food. Expenditure on, 534 Free Goods, Imports of, 893 Developmental Diseases, Deaths from, Friendly Societies, 745 685 Frozen Meat Trade, 422 Fruit, Imports and Exports, 282 Furniture Factories, 947 Gaols, 468 Gardens and Orchards, 280 Gis Works, 951 Gems and Gemstones, 234 |