Fraser, M: Western Australian Year-Book, Vol. 7

Excerpt from Western Australian Year-Book, Vol. 7: For 1892-1893

The information given with reference to the several Goldfields, and other resources of the Colony, has been greatly enlarged, and made as complete as the space available allows; this part of the work being kindly undertaken by Mr. H. P. Woodward, the Govern ment Geologist.

A new Map, fully up to date, has been added, containing most accurate and invaluable information as regards the Land Divisions, Goldfields, Stock Routes, Agricultural Areas, Steam and Mail Routes, Railways open and in course of construction, Telegraphs, Lighthouses, Water-holes, Rainfall, &c &c.

The endeavour throughout the book has been to condense into the smallest space the largest possible amount of reliable and readable information, useful alike to persons living within the Colony or at a distance, and to produce a work which will be of use to those to whom the name of Western Australia is becoming increasingly familiar, as that of a Colony destined to witness one of the great gold developments of the close of the present century, perhaps to repeat, in the nineties, the history of the fifties of Victoria.

As it has been found hardly possible to compile the Year Book until the appearance of the Annual Departmental Reports, which takes place about the middle of the year, and this causes consider able delay in its time of publication, I have thought it as well to embody, for the future, the two years in the title, calling the present issue The Year Book for 1892-93.

In conclusion, I have to express my obligation to the heads of the various Government Departments, and others, who have rendered such ready and kindly assistance in the compilation of this little book, without which its production, in this completer form, would have been a matter of great difficulty, if not almost of impossibility.

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