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The benefit of this book is the insight into the history and background of the colony of Western Australia and its current organisation by government and other bodies such as the churches. It does not provide the reader with lists of names but does occasionally mention a person in the narrative.

In gaining a snap shot of Western Australia and thus providing valuable background information for researchers, this book is important with coverage as follows:

• Progress of the colony—financial, industrial, and material as relating to the banks, income, shipping, post and telegraphs, and the railways
• Development—harbour works at Fremantle, Perth, Guildford, York, Newcastle, Northam, Albany, Geraldton and Bunbury
• Commerce— Agriculture, wine, fruit, timber, pastoral, wool, fisheries, pearls and shell
• Newspapers
• Convicts
• Aborigines
• The churches

System Requirements: Any computer using Adobe (Acrobat) Reader 4 or later Adobe Reader 6 or later is recommended for CDs with searchable text.