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THE BRITISH EMPIRE : — AUSTRALIA
Area and Population.
Area.
States and
Census— April 3, 1911.
Estimated
Territories.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Per 100 sq. miles.
Dec 31, 1919
New South Wales . Victoria .... Queensland . South Australia . West Australia Tasmania
Northern Territory Federal Territory .
Sq. Miles.
309,432
87,884
670,500
380,070
975,920
26,215
523,620
940
857,698 655,591
329,506
207,358
161,665
97,591
2,734
992
789,036
659,960
276,307
201,200
120,549
93,620
576
722
1,646,734
1,315,551
605,813
408,558
282,114
191,211
3,310
1,714
582
1,497
- >o
108 29
729 0.6
190
2,002,631
1,495,938
725.220
468,194
331,660
216,751
4,706
1,919
Commonwealth
2,974,581
2,313,035 1 2,141,970
4,455,0li5 i 150
5,247.019
1 Excluding aborigines. These are estimated to number from 75,000 to 100,000.
The number of occupied dwellings in the Commonwealth in 1911, accord- ing to a return issued by the Commonwealth statistician, was 924,259. The figures for the various States are as follows : New South Wales, 330,976 ; Victoria, 272,683; Queensland, 125,836; South Australia, 84,179; Western Australia, 68,870; Tasmania, 40,025; Northern Territory, 1,248; Federal Capital Territory, 442. Of these houses 499,653 were built of wood, 235,460 of brick, 75,565 of stone, and 38,797 of iron. No less than 49,375 buildings are described as being built of hessian or canvas, and 3,372 were of bark.
The Northern Territory, with an area of 523,620 square miles, was under the jurisdiction of South Australia from 1863 to 1910. On the 1st January, 1911, it was transferred to the Commonwealth (see Northern Territory).
In 1905 the administration of Papua was transferred to the Common- wealth (see Papua).
Marriages, births, and deaths in 1919 : —
States and Territories
Marriages
Births
Deaths
Surplus of Births
States-
New South Wales
15,809
48,532
26,344
22,lS,s
11,706
31,619
19..S70
12,249
Queensland ....
6,428
18,699
8,856
9,843
South Australia
3,855
11,060
5,475
5,585
Western Australia
2,194
6,937
3,690
3,347
Tasmania ....
1,518
5,310
2,192
3,118
Territories —
. i
Northern Territory
25
106
S5
n
Federal Capital Territory .
9
27
18
- >
Total .
40,540
122,290
65.010
56.860
Migration in 1919 : Arrivals, 222,956 ; departures, 62,776 ; excess arrivals, 160,180.
Finance- Actual revenue and expenditure for I91i> 17 to 1919-20 are given in the following table. The payments to States represent the balances of revenue collected in the Several States alter the necessary expenditure on Common- i wealth services. Under the "Surplus Revenue Act, 1910," the amount! payable by the Commonwealth to each State from July 1, 1910, is a surU equivalent to 25 shillings per head of the population as estimated by the | Commonwealth Statistician at 81st December in each year. (In 1910-11 this
