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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 604, 6 September 1909, Page 3

.•■'■* A retiirn has just-been issuecTby tho Federal government. Statist, showing m< a, com-, parative form the .estimated .value of. Victorian products for tho five;.years' ended 1908. -During' the period mentioned there a; steady •'increase' for the first four, .years,' J che ■ total having expanded from £31,652,033 in 1904 t0.£37,274,654 in. 1907. Last year, however, there was a drop of £992,245 to £30,282,499, owing entirely to the shrinkage in tho value of .dairying aiid pastoral production, amounting to ■no -less than £3,856,700. For this large decreaso the fall hi the wool markot was mainly responsible, 'but the butter : output also diminished materially, Mie reductions in tho exports' overseas,, alouo, representng .a -moneyvaluo of £507,208. Wheat during 1908' showed up well, .the production' being valued at £11,005,286,' or a gain, of £2,629,832 over the previous year's figures. Manufacturing*interests have .'progressed, throughout, tW last five, years, and from this source,,in 19081 tho. amount of £11,673,693 was produced in. tho shape of • value, duo to the process, .of manufacture. -\' '■'.'■. ■■'■■;.■■• r.: