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There is a Government savings bank with 278 branches ; at the end of 1911-12, there were 139,091 depositors, with 7,342,811?, to their credit. Average value of each account, 521. 16s. lOd.

Books of Reference.

A.B.C. of Queensland statistics. By Thornhill Wee-Ion, F.S.S. Annual. Brisbane.

StatisticalRegisterof Queensland, Annual. Brisbane.

Census of the Colony of Queensland, taken on March 31, 1901. Fol. Brisbane, 1902.

Queensland Official Year-Book. 1009. Brisbane.

Reports from the Government Statistician on Vital Statistics and on Agricultural and Pastoral Statistics. Annual. Brisbane.

Reportsof the Department of Agriculture, Commis.sioner for Raihvay.s, Department of j\Iines, of Geological Survey, Department of Public Lands, Department of Public Instruction, (fee. Annual. Brisbane.

Kennedy (E. B.). The Black Police of Queensland. London, 1902.

Lumholtz(G.), Among Cannibals. London, 1889.

Petrie(T.), Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queenslar.d, recorded by his daughter. Brisbane, 1004.

Pw^/i's Queensland Almanac. Court Guide, Gazetteer, &c. Annual. Brisbane.

Roth (J. W. B.),Ethnologicai Studies among North-WestCentral Aborigines. Brisbane.

Russell (H. S.). The Genesis of Queensland. Sydney, 1888.

Sapxtord's Queensland Almanac and Gazetteer. Annual. Brisbane.

Satg'e (O. de), Pages from the Journal of a Queensland Squatter. London, 1901.

Sernon (R.), Im australischen Busch und am den Kiisten des Korallenmeeres. Leipzig, 1896. [Also Eng. Trans. London, 1899.]

WeedoniT.), Queensland Past and Present. Brisbane, 1897.

Many works relating to Queensland can be obtained from the Agent- General in London.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Constitution and Government.

South Australia was formed into a Britisli Province by Letters Patent of February, 1836, and a partially elective Legislative Council was esta- blished in 1851. The present Constitution bears date October 24, 1856. It vests the legislative power in a Parliament elected by the people. The Parliament consists of a Legislative Council and a House of Assembly. The former is composed of eighteen members. Every three years nine members retire, and their places are supplied by new members elected from each of the four districts into which the State is divided for this purpose. The executive has no power to dissolve this body. The qualifications of an elector to the Legislative Council^ are to be twenty-one years of age, a natural born or naturalised subject of His Majesty, and have been on the electoral roll six months, besides having a freehold of 50Z. value, or a leasehold of 201. annual value, or occupying a dwelling-house the rent of which is not less than 17^. per annum, or a registered proprietor of a Crown lease with improvements to the value of at least 501., the property of the elector ; head teacher of a college or school re- siding on premises ; po.straaster or postmistre.ss residing in the building ; railway stationmaster resident in premises ; member of police force in charge of a station ; officiating minister of religion. By the Constitution Amend- ment Act, 1899, the franchise was extended to women. There were 79,213 registered electors in 1911. The qualification for a member of Council is merely that he be thirty years of age, a natural born or naturalised subject,