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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