'11,653,725 | 16,240,630 | 15,452,025 |(h)1,481,442 |(h)1,097,219 | 7,301,501 12,628,057 Transvaal.

737,164 684,970 1,080,029
3,106,433
93,222 95,079 90,031
7,235,653 7,947,662 8,770,719
295,176 301,573 254,403
2,541,892 2,720,639 2,839,813
13,539,588 14,000,540 14,817,127 16,297,277
1,439,602 1,753,783
32,646
607
302

3,067,204 3,262,282

1,951,433 2,037,831
41,409 40,323

Native States). (c)

Australia:

New South Wales.
Victoria.

South Australia (includ

ing N. Territory). Western Australia. (d)

Tasmania.

Queensland.

TOTAL COMMONWEALTH.

New Zealand.

331

British New Guinea.
Natal.

67

(e) For rates of conversion into £ sterling, see Table No. 2, page 5. (d) The figures represent the quantity and value of gold "Entered for Export and received at the Perth Branch of the Royal Mint."

(e) For four months only. In years prior to 1898, 6,470 ozs. were produced from the S. Rhodesian mines.

For value of gold exported from British New Guinea, see pp. 46-7.

(g) Figures for 12 months ended 31st March of the year stated.

(4) Output restricted owing to the S. African War. Mining operations were resumed in May, 1901.

(1) The figures for 1902 and 1903 represent the quantity of fine gold produced in the whole of the Transvaal. For prior years, the figures for the Witwatersrand Fields only are given-the production of which amounted to 1,690,101 ozs. in 1902.

(a) Tons of 2,240 lbs.; conversions from tons of 2,000 lbs. having been made for the Cape of Good Hope, Transvaal, and the Dominion of Canada.

(b) Includes 20 tons in 1891, 61 tons in 1892, 502 tons in 1893, and 1,000 tons in 1896, the value of which was not stated. (e) Excluding coal converted into coke, the manufacture of which commenced in 1890. The quantity and value of coke made in New South Wales were:

(e) For rates of conversion into £ sterling, see Table No. 2, p. 5.

For part of the year only, the mines being in the occupation of the Boers, for some months, from October, 1899. (g) The figures given represent the approximate average selling prices at the port of shipment. (A) The figures given represent the value at the pit's mouth, except where otherwise stated.

PERSONS EMPLOYED IN AND ABOUT COAL MINES.

No. 72.-NUMBER of PERSONS EMPLOYED in and about

(a) For British Columbia and Nova Scotia only. The number of persons employed in and about coal mines in other Provinces (in w ica is produced about 7 per cent. of the total production of coal in the Dominion) cannot be state

PERSONS EMPLOYED IN AND ABOUT COAL MINES.

COAL MINES in the various COLONIAL AND OTHER POSSESSIONS.