TOBACCO

No 66.-ACREAGE of LAND under TOBACCO in each of the

(a) The figures are for the 12 months ended 31st March of the years stated.
(b) Tobacco is only cultivated in the States of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.
(c) The figures are for the 12 months ended 31st March of the years following those stated.

No. 67-QUANTITY of TOBACCO PRODUCED in each of the

(a) Tobacco is only cultivated in the States of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. (b) The figures are for the 12 months ended 31st March of the years following those stated. NOTE-Tobacco is also grown in Seychelles, Transvaal, Colony of Southern Nigeria, Gold

are not

from undermentioned COLONIES, POSSESSIONS, and PROTECTORATES, from 1897 to 1906.

TOBACCO.

COLONIES, POSSESSIONS, AND
PROTECTORATES.

British India (except Native States). (a)
Ceylon.

Mauritius.

Australia: (b)

New South Wales. (e)

Victoria. (c)

Queensland.

Territory of Papua.

(d) Only a small quantity (101 acres, producing 107,018 lbs. according to the 1901 census) is grown in the Provinces of the Dominion, other than Ontario and Quebec. (e) Census figures.

(c) See note (d) to Table above.

(d) Census figures.

(e) Domestic Exports are given as production figures are not available.

Coast. Sierra Leone, and British Honduras, but particulars of acreage and production available.

wealth (b) Dominion of New Zealand

Lbs.

Lbs. 30,893,195 27,977,905 31,935,412

541,452,425 533,589,504 527,450,077 529,030,820 490,499,596 440,434,131 454,683,014 391,130,357 118,180,912 109,719,684 144,295,154 116,015,170 129,151,624 | 135,835,117 149,385,815 147,169,497, 3,065,761 3,885,194 3,808,475 4,024,500 4,187,628 4,301,500 4,801,222 4,823,458

20,887,888 (c)24,067,019 (c)17,794,942 (c)19,450,975 25,537,963
70,335,193 66,659,844 54,540,787 65,632,613 73,442,598

21,743,155 24,292,777 20,435,499 60,255,417 73,732,926 69,289,606

(a) For the 12 months ended 31st March of the years following those stated.

(b) The figures show for years prior to 1903, the excess of Wool exported from Australia to Non-Australian Countries over Imports thereof from such countries. From 1903, the returns were compiled by the Commonwealth Government for Australia as a whole with places outside the Commonwealth, and the figures given represent the exports of Australian wool from that date.

WOOL-DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO UNITED KINGDOM.

No. 69.-QUANTITY of WOOL of DOMESTIC PRODUCE EXPORTED from PRINCIPAL

(c) For the years ended 30th June.

(d) The figures given represent the exports of Wool, the produce of British South Africa, via the various Coast ports.

WOOL-DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO UNITED KINGDOM.

COLONIES and POSSESSIONS to the UNITED KINGDOM in each of the Years 1895 to 1906.

(c) The returns were compiled, for the first time, by the Commonwealth Government for Australia as a whole in 1903, and the figures given from that date represent the exports to the United Kingdom of Australian wool only. The figures given for years prior to 1903 were compiled from the returns of each of the Australian States, and represent the total exports of Wo 1 (i.e., Domestic and Foreign) to the United Kingdom.

(d) The figures given represent the exports to the United Kingdom of Wool, the produce of British South Africa, via the various Coast ports.

(e) Approximate figures.

LIVE STOCK.-HORSES.

No. 70.-NUMBER of HORSES in the various

Census figures. (e) Inclusive of horses owned by Maoris in 1896 and later years.

) Exclusive of horses owned by natives.

) Inclusive of horses in the Province of Zululand, annexed to Natal on 30th December, 1897.