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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