Australia Is A World Trader

Australia’s position as one of the great exporting nations of the world rests on three main platforms—the quantity, quality and wide range of food and manufactured goods produced within the country.

AS a world food producer, Australia ranks second as a grower of canned fruits, third for dried fruits and fourth for cane sugar. Australia is also one of the four biggest ex porters of wheat, is among the eight leading countries producing meat and

dairy produce, and grows practice every known fruit and vegetable.

Its comprehensive list of prims exports ranges from staple fooc such as wheat and rice, to su delicacies as oysters, crayfish & asparagus, which Pacific island! often serve to the international toun Australia’s wide variations climate, soil and rainfall provide id! conditions for growing all kinds foods. In the north are the gn plains over which beef cattle o range, while the sunny, south-east provides for dairy cattle' Fruit-growing districts exte: northward from the cool mount! slopes of the island State of T 1 mania, famous for apples and bee fruit, through the vineyards, pear pear and apricot orchards of irrigated south-east of the mainla to the coastal plains of the s'< tropical and tropical north, whr banana and pineapple plantatid flourish. Australia’s proximity to ; islands of the South Pacific ensuj fast, regular deliveries of high-quali foodstuffs.

Refrigerated ships sailing betw*\ Australia and the Islands pern freshly-picked apples, grapes, pes;

ges and vegetables to reach their nation in perfect condition, while aft can even permit delivery on lay the foods are ordered, i increasing section of Australia’s rts around the world consists of trial raw materials, principally and steel, copper, lead and zinc, a tremendously wide variety of ifactured commodities ranging telecommunications equipment lastic shoes; from earthmoving linery to antibiotic drugs, stralian manufacturers can com with those of other industrial ries for price and quality and )ffer better after-sales service in cases—a most important con ition. e islands of the South Pacific are ional buyers of Australian d meats, condensed and sred milks, wheat, flour, tea ilcoholic beverages. They pur manufactured items such as , metal furniture, motor cars, ical appliances, food machinery, and tubes, leather, plastic and household items and matches, -ir satisfaction with the Aus i product is shown in the heavily ised purchases in recent years, s background of experience ;s Australian producers to cater e specific requirements of Pacific srs with a degree of service and ncy unmatched anywhere in the

Harvesting rice at Humpty Doo in the Northern Territory of Australia. This venture in commercial rice production is being conducted by Territory Rice Ltd. under agreement to the Commonwealth Government. The company has the right to select up to 500,000 acres of suitable land in sub-coastal plains, on condition that the leases are developed for subdivision, for closer settlement. The rice is to be entirely exported to neighbouring Asian countries, after being processed at a new rice mill at Darwin.