Vi.—: Benefits offered to Australia.

What were the 4,000,000 inhabitants of Australia to receive? According to the Board of Trade, in 1904 Australia exported £23,300,000 to the United Kingdom, as follow:—

The average imports of corn and butter are much lower.

and New Zealand (1904)—

This gives £275,000: at a maximum Australia and New Zealand would receive £700,000. The population of Australia and New Zealand is 5,000,000 in round numbers: this would allow them 2s. 9d. a year per head, or 11 farthings a month. Mr. Chamberlain has told us often enough that the English consumer would only have to pay “farthings” in return for the benefit to the Colonies: he might also have pointed out that the present to the Colonies could only be calculated in farthings—10 a month to Canadians, 11 a month to Australians!