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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.