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Each minister has a salary of 1,000Z. ; the Vice-President of the Exe- cntive Council receives 300Z.
Agent- General for Queenslandin Great Britain. — Major Sir T. B. Robinson.
Secretary.— ^Iy. P. J. Dillon.
Provision is made for Local Government by the subdivision of the State into areas denominated respectively citie.s, towns and shires. These are under the management of aldermen and councillors, who are elected by the ratepayers and are charged with the control of all matters of a parochial nature, more especially the construction and maintenance of roads and bridges within their allotted areas. Shires for the most part consist of purely rural districts.
The number and area of these subdivisions, together with the receipts and expenditure for the year 1911, were : —
No.
9
24 133
Area in square miles
Receipts
£
303,045
1-26,795
. 391,892
Expenditure
Cities .... Towns .... Shiies
79? 285t'„ 069,890^
£ 290,051 130,999 377,949
Totals .
106
070,255
821,732
SOS, 599
Area and Population.
Queensland comprises the whole north-eastern portion of the Australian continent, including the adjacent islands in the Pacific Ocean and in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Estimated area 670,500 English square miles, with a seaboard of 2,250 miles. In 1825 a branch penal settlement was made at Moreton Bay ; in 1842 free settlers were admitted to the country, and during the next twenty years great progress was apparent.
The increase in the population at different periods since 1846 has been as follows : —
Years
1846 1S56 1861 1864
Population
Equivalent increase per cent.
per annum
Years
2,257 18,.544 30,059 61,467
72-16 17-06 34-83.
1868 1871 1876 1881
Population
99,901 120,104 173,283 213,525
® 4^
a
- 2 « 5
eg cd P o d
'5 « S^ "^
15-63 6-74 8-85 4-64
Years Populatii
1886 1891 1901 1911
.S; a; O p , c3 cs *J a
,ion > 9 « c
322,853 393,718 498,129 605,813
10-24 4-39 2-78 2-16
At the census of 1911 the population consisted of 329,506 males, and 276,307 females. The total included 6,138 male and 576 female Chinese; 1,865 male and 400 female "Polynesians"; 1,428 male and 75 female Japanese ; 4,573 persons of other Asiatic, &c., races. In addition there were 5,145 male and 3,542 female full-blooded Aborigines living in a
civilised manner.