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New South Wales Wool

Export of Wool
Quantity and value of wool, exported from the colony of New South Wales (including the District of Port Phillip) from the year 1841 to 1850 inclusions

Year Quantity

Total value as entered in the
returns of export.

1841

1842

1843

1844

1845

146

1847

1848

1849

1850

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8, 390, 540

9, 428, 036

12, 704, 899

13, 542, 173

17, 364, 734

16, 479, 520

22, 374, 722

22, 969, 711

27, 963, 530

32, 361, 829

 £  517 : 587

    595 : 175

    685 : 647

    645 : 344

 1, 009 : 242
   
 1, 019 : 985

 1, 272 : 118

 1, 240 : 144

 1, 238 : 559

 1, 614 :  241

1854.
Direct Shipment of New South Wales Wool to France

A [can't read] has been received in October 1854 from [Mefers Desgrund], [Pere], & [Fils], stating that the French Government, [can't read] of encouraging this trade, have forced a differential duty of 5 per cent, and again subsequently of 12 per cent, in favour of wool imported direct from Australia.
The French importer will thereby save about twenty per cent if he can get his wool shipped direct to a French port, instead of its reaching him via England, whilst the wool grower will obtain from a penny to two pence per pound higher

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