Report of the British Economic Mission to Australia

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Identifikator:: 179824683X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-182286

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the British Economic Mission to Australia

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Office

Year of publication:: 7th January 1929

Scope:: 63 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part IV. Supplementary memoranda and conclusions

Collection:: Economics Books

Led (3) That it would be greatly to the advantage of the commercial and manufacturing prosperity of Australia if there were added to she present activities of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research the sphere of work which deals with the standardization ind simplification of manufacturing processes. (Para. 8.) (4) That an Economic Service should be set up as a separate organization. (Para. 7.) (5) That for the general co-ordination of the three bodies, the Development and Migration Commission, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, and the Economic Service, a Committee should be formed consisting of the heads of the three bodies as members with the Commonwealth Minister, to whom they report, as Chairman, and with some outstanding man as Vice-Chairman. (Para. 9.) EE. Tae PASTORAL INDUSTRY. (1) The direct profits from wool grown on the sheep stations show a tendency to decline. (Paras. 2 to 4.) (2) Security of land tenure is necessary, and we favour freehold tenure or, alternatively, very long leaseholds. (Paras. 5 to 8.) (8) We consider that systems of taxation should not differentiate in favour of leasehold as against freehold land. (Para. 9.) (4) The size of areas granted for sheep raising should be deter- mined by the consideration of the maximum wealth production of the land, not by the consideration of the minimum area on which an individual can make a living. (Paras. 10 to 18.) (5) The arguments for security of tenure, if possible freehold, are even stronger in the case of large scale cattle ranching than in that of sheep raising. (Para. 14.) (6) The number of existing meat export works is uneconomically large and ought to be reduced. (Para. 15.) F.. MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION. (1) Australia must look for her future development in great measure to remunerative exports. (Para. 1.) (2) High costs of production limit remunerative export mainly 0 wool and wheat. (Para. 2.) (8) The home market has been artificially retained for agricul- ural products, and there is difficulty in marketing a surplus, which lifficulty is intensified as the surplus grows. (Paras. 3 and 4.) (4) Co-operative handling of products retains all the profits for the co-operators but is not always efficient. (Para. 6.) (6) An export market cannot be built up by looking primarily 0 the home market. Quality rather than quantity of products [409

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