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MORTGAGED WEALTH.

"There Is a mortgage or 21 per cent on the realised material wealth or Australia," said Mr. C. H. Wickens, the Commonwealth Statistician, in a recent address in Melbourne. Mr. Wickens spoke on Australia's balancesheet. He said that a calculation which he now had in hand showed the total private wealth or Australia was £2,425,000,300, or £4 26 per head of population, and the property of the Federal State and local Governments was £725.000,000. This made the total wealth £3.150.000,000. Against this, £700,000,000 was due to Australia's creditors oversea. The public debt owed outside Australia, on the latest figures, amounted to £500,000.000, and the private debt abroad to £200,000,000, most or which existed in the rorm or property held in Australia by oversea companies and nrms. wealth" JBsi£!r 1 S aI asSfcl is our human ? «;, W1 «*«"". "and this, on

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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 247, 18 October 1926, Page 4

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MORTGAGED WEALTH. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 247, 18 October 1926, Page 4

MORTGAGED WEALTH. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 247, 18 October 1926, Page 4