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 AREA AND POPULATION

Secretary for Agriculture and Stock.— Hon. W. N. Oillifs. Assistant Minister of Justice. — Hon. J. Mullan.

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President of Legislative Council.— Hon. "W. Lennon.

Each minister" lias a salary of 1,000 J.; the Vice-President of the Exe- cutive Council receives 300?.

Agent-General for Queensland in Great Britain. — J. M. Uunter. Office. — 409, Strand. Secretary, V. J. Dillon.

Provision is made for Local Government by the subdivision of the State into areas denominated respectively cities, towns and shires. These are under the management of aldermen and councillors, who are elected by the ratepayers and are charged with the control of all matters of a parochial nature, more especially the construction and maintenance of roads and bridges within their allotted areas. Shires for the most part consist of purely rural districts.

The number and area of these subdivisions, together with the receipts and expenditure for the year 1919, were : —

No. ' Area ,ia e s ; 1U * re Receipt. ' Expenditure

Capital Value

Cities.

£ £

11, 207-5

£

Towns. Shiies.

24 302-5 239,857 18i. 1 669,384 | 61«J 71$.

Totals. .

171 869,834 ! l,4SS,94w -.975

63,(«j

Area and Population.

Queensland comprises the whole north-eastern portion of the Australian continent, including the adjacent islands in the Pacific Ocean and in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Estimated area 070,500 English square miles, with a seaboard of 2,250 miles. In 1825 a branch penal settlement was made at Moreton Bay ; in 1842 free settlers were admitted to the country, and during the next twenty years great progress was apparent.

The increase in the population at different periods since 1846 has been as follows : —

«5;3

i«*i

1

nt. Din

fears

Population

Kqiiiva

per ct

I'i'i inn

Years

Population

per <■>

I'-r urn

Tears Population

— .- a

1846

2,257

1868

99,901

15-63

1886 322, S53

10-24

I--..-,

1S.544

7216

1871

120,104

0-74

1891 39*.

4 39

IStil

30.059

17-08

ir*,m

8-85

1901 498.

2-78

1364

61,467

34 ->3

1881

213,525

4-64

1911 605,813

2-16

Estimated population, exclusive of aborigines, June 30, 1920, 737,0-

At the census of 1911 the population consisted of 329,506 males,

ind 276,307 females. The total included 6,138 male and 576 female

Chinese; 1.865 male and 400 female "Polynesians"; 1,428 male and

75 female Japanese ; 4,573 persons of other Asiatic, &c, races. In addition