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THE statesman's YEAR-BOOK, 1913
remitted by money orders and postal notes was 91,410,505 dollars, against 77,280,365 dollars in the fiscal year 1911.
Savings Banks. — The report contains the following data concerning the Dominion post- office savings banks in 1912, the figures shown in parentheses being the corresponding statistics for 1911 :— Number of offices, 1,172 (1,151) ; number of deposits, 225,316 (203,196) ; amount of deposits, 11,054,877 dollars (9,957,016) ; number of withdrawals, 95,829 (90,664) ; amount of withdrawals, 12,303,688 dollars (11,470,360 dollars); number of accounts opened, 39,396 (34,639) ; number of accounts closed, 38,955 (36,054) ; number of accounts remaining open, 147,919 (147,478); balance to credit of depositors, 43,563,764 dollars (43,330,579 dollars).
NEWFOUNDLAND.
Fisheries. — The catch of seals in the 1912 season was 175,130 seals against 304,591 in 1911 ; lobsters, 26,178 cases in 1912, against 28,881 cases in 1911. Canned salmon packed in 1912, 4,785, against 3,577 in 1911. Whales caught in 1912, 294 ; in 1911, 335.
Commerce, 1912.-
AUSTRALIA.
-The imports and exports in 1912 were as follows : —
Imports
1
otal Export
•s
£
£
Specie and Bullion
• •
1,692.501
13,280,120
Other Articles .
...
76,405,109 78,097,610
65,580,519
Total
78,860,639
The chief imports and expoi
ts were :—
Imports £
Exports £
Apparel and soft goods .
16,525,302
Butter
. ,
.
3,343,562
Drugs and Chemicals .
1,243,798
Coal
1,147,011
Iron and steel bars, rods, gir-
Copper, ingots and i
natte
3,073,692
ders, plates, &c.
4,351,885
Lead, pig.
and lead
in matte .
1,617,955
Implements and machinery .
5,354,001
Wheat
6,403,237
Metals, manufectures of
5,233,470
Flour (wheaten)
1,463,474
Timber
2,903,007
Meats, frozen and preserved .
4,198,114
Tea
1,324,032
Skins and hides
, ,
4,289,944
Sugar
1,189,764
Tallow
,
1,551,331
Railway materials, &c. .
1,?86,325
Wool
.
22,078,706
Paper
1,792,493
Gold
.
10,470,058
Jute goods ....
1,291,596
Gold, uncoined and
ores
1,936,413
Gold, uncoined
1,143,068
Ores, except gold ores .
1,173,039
The quantity of butter exported was 66,718,160 lbs., and of wool 620,869,449 lbs.
The following table shows the values of the direct oversea imports into each State of the Commonwealth, and the proportions of United Kingdom origin, for the years 1911 and 1912. The figures for 1912 are preliminary :—
1911.
1912.
State.
Total Imports.
United Kingdom Origin.
Total Imports.
V United Kingdom Origin.
New South Wales . Victoria . . . Queensland . . South Australia Western Australia . Tasmania Northern Territory
£
27,342,452
21,850,963
■ 6,212,240
6,245,380
4,485,363
816,806
14,284
£
12,675,664 9,910,822 3,704,032 3,258,117 2,644,017 540,525 3,912
Per
cent. 46-3 45-3 59-6 52-2 58-9 66-2 27-4
£
32,269,656 25,087,263 7,423,064 6,973,479 5,317,371 1,009,370 17,407
1 Per
£ j cent.
15,341,860 ! 47-5
11,404,189 45-4
4,485,106 60-4
3,646,532 52*3
3,155,396 i 59-3
647,917 , 64-2
Not avail able.
Total
66,967,488
32,737,089
48-9
78,097,610
38,681,000 ! 49-5
