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One Hundred and Fifty Years of Australian Commerce
R J Hawkes outlines Australia’s 150 year commercial history from the 1788 colony to modern times. He covers wool exports, Merino origins, the emergence of banking and industry, railway and telegraph expansion, and evolving transport and communications that underpin current trade. The piece notes a Dutch celebration as Princess Juliana of Holland has a daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colony
New South Wales
Australia
Parramatta
Cape of Good Hope
Hunter River
Isaac Nicholls
Sydney
Bank of New Wales
Savings Bank
Supreme Court
Legisaltive Council
Liverpool Plains
Peel
Hastings
Manning Rivers
Ralph Darling
Sydney Chamber of Commerce
Brisbane
Adelaide
Melbourne
Commonwealth
Hemisphere
South Australia
Darwin
Java
Wellington
New Zealand
England
Victoria
Juliana of
Tolland