South Australian exports |
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| Title : | South Australian exports |
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| Source : | Wallaroo times and mining journal, 10 June 1874, p. 2,col. b-d | ||
| Place Of Creation : | Wallaroo | ||
| Publisher : | A.F. Taylor | ||
| Date of creation : | 1874 | ||
| Format : | Newspaper | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Description : |
The editorial examines the statistics printed in the South Australian Government Gazette of 4 June pages 961-979, which minutely recorded the exports and imports from all South Australian ports. Wallaroo was the second busiest port after Port Adelaide. The major exports are given as copper and copper ore, wheat, other cereal grains and wool. Other exports include wine, preserved meat, skins, hides and tallow, and wattle bark for the tanning industry. Lesser quantities of fruit and eggs are also among the exports. The article continues with the port rankings according to the value of their exports: Port Adelaide, Wallaroo, Port MacDonnell, Port Wakefield, Blanchetown, Robe, Port Pirie, and Port Caroline. Port Augusta was not listed as it was not the season for wool exports. It should be noted that port rankings periodically changed as local industries changed. For instance in the late 1880s Port Pirie would become the outlet for the ores from Broken Hill and in the early 1850s Port Wakefield rather than Wallaroo had been the second most important port in the colony. |
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| Coverage year : | 1874 |
| Period : | 1852-1883 |
| Place : | South Australia |
| Further reading : | Couper-Smartt, John Port Adelaide: tales from a "commodious harbour" Port Adelaide: Friends of the South Australian Maritime Museum, 2003 Parsons, Ronald Southern passages: a maritime history of South Australia Netley, S. Aust.: Wakefield Press, 1986 South Australian ports. Shipping and trade statistics Department of Marine and Harbors Adelaide: The Dept., [1981?]- |
| Internet links : | Flinders Ports: Port statistics South Australia: scroll down to Economy SA Memory Wooden walls and ironsides, Developing trade and port histories: Outports |
| Exhibitions and events : | State Library of South Australia: Mortlock Wing exhibitions. Wooden Walls and Iron Sides August 2004- |
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