the effects of the postwar slump in trade are not folk so heavily in Australia as they are in. this' country.
"Large fortunes have been and fare still being made by the sale of land around the cities. Blocks of and suitable for dwell ing houses and shops are eager-snapped up by the small invester With a fow hundred pounds capital to spare. Money is, then Tent by the banks for building Purposes, or the land ig left bare, then resold after an interval of from two to three yeard ab a from 10 per cent. to 50 per cent. profit, Tt speaks well for the internal prosperity of the country that a Targe proportion of the artisans and small shopkeepers own Blocks of land and often the houses in which they live are their own property
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