COTTON GROWING IN AUSTRALIA

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 12292, 9 October 1907, Page 4

COTTON GROWING IN AUSTRALIA

Austhalia as a field lor cotton growing is jr.s^ now engaging serious attention in England. Sir Alfred Jones presided at a meeting of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce i.n Monday, July 29 last, when an address on "Cotton Growing and Pastoral Industries of West Australia" was delivered by Mr Frederick BrocEman, cJiief inerecting surveyor of the West Australian Government. In the north of West Australia, Mr Brockman said, there were great possibilities for cotton growing ami m 00l growing, the country and climate bein? eminently suitable. He had prepared estimates of the profits to be made at the north of West Australia, where cotton would grow luxuriantly, showing that with a capital of £8000 an area of 300 acres night be cultivated, and at the end of three years a profit of £3700 could be made, which sum should be the constant net profit for succeeding years. With regard to wool growing, Mr Brockman estimated that, with an original capital of £15.900, at the end of three years, at a very low estimate, a profit of £4000 would be realised. Mr J. C. Aitkin, secretary of the British Cotton Growing Association, in seconding a vote of thanks to Mr Broekmai, said the Association had received some samples of very good cotton grown in West Australia, and he believed a good supply of cotton could be obtained there if the matter were gone into. Sir Alfred Jones, in supporting the proposition, said the more they studied the question of cotton growing under the British flag, the more they came to realise how easy it was to grow cotton, and to find how few places there were where cotton could not Tbe grown.