GREAT PROGRESS

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3496, 4 November 1926, Page 10

GREAT PROGRESS

isv Westeux Australia. TWENTY YEARS’ DEVELOrJiE.N'3 [By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] PERTH. Nov. 3. Speaking at the opening of the Muroslc Agricultural College, the Premier Mr. P. Collier, referred to the wonder, ful progress Western Australia bad made in the past twenty years. Gold mining, he said, had increased the State’s population by 200.000 in fourteen years,- and had prepared the way tor a groat agricultural experiment. Twenty years ago the State's export of wheat and flour was practically nil, but the value of wheat exported last year was £4,180,000, and this year it should exceed £0,000,000. "'wool export values had risen from £003,000 ill 1900 fo over £3,500.000. Tho area under crop for wheat and bay was 400,000 acres in 1900, and this year 3,250,000 acres. The estimated revenue for tho Slate for 1926-27 was nearly double that of ten years ago. Railway lines had increased by over 2000 miles since 1900. FATAL FALL FROM HORSE. DANNEVIKKE, Last Night. Joan Hansen, aged S, died at the Dannevirke Hospital this morning from injuries received last week through failing from a pony and being dragged. She had an arm fractured, and suffered injuries to the head and concussion. She never regained consciousness. The deceased was a daughter of a Glengarry settler.