The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 64
Imports for the Year 1879
Imports for the Year 1879.
Agricultural Implements £42,715 | |
Bark | 15,582 |
Bones and Bonedust | 23,849 |
Boots and Shoes | 171,689 |
Brushes and Brooms | 15,482 |
Batter | 8,644 |
Candies | 51,890 |
Coals | 221,457 |
Confectionery | 11,492 |
Fish (Potted and Preserved) | 30,452 |
Flour | 46,399 |
Fruits (Bottled and Dried) | 43,109 |
Green Fruit | 67,445 |
Furniture | 92,112 |
Glass Bottles | 8,569 |
Grain-Barley | 9,895 |
Maize | 21,636 |
Malt | 10,955 |
Hops | 11,858 |
Iron—Bar and Rod | £70,181 |
Iron—Fencing | 65,653 |
Iron—Galvanised | 92,850 |
Iron—Rails | 172,175 |
Jams and Jellies | 49,490 |
Leather | 61,904 |
Machinery (Agricultural) | 88,805 |
Castor Oil | 15,505 |
Potatoes | 5,132 |
Railway—Carriages | 8,220 |
Railway—Locomotives | 67,826 |
Railway—Trucks | 18,743 |
Railway—Other Kinds | 127,163 |
Saddlery and Harness | 74,634 |
Seeds—Grass and Clover | 70,922 |
Seeds—Other Kinds | 18,375 |
Specie—Gold | 340,000 |
Sugar—Raw | 18,027 |
Sugar—Refined | 493,854 |
Tallow | 5,651 |
Timber | 141,112 |
The above are a few items that might be grown or manufactured in page 98 the colony, with the assistance of some little encouragement from the Government.