Western Australia an official handbook for The Information of Commercial Men, Migrants, and Tourists was a government publication that was produced by the government in the 1890s and 1920s in Western Australia.
- 1891/1892 edition[1][2]
- 1900 edition, produced for the Paris Exposition[3][4][5]
- 1912 edition[6][7][8]
- 1925 edition[9][10][11][12][13][14]
The contents were arranged:[15]
- Physical features and history
- State's awakening
- Western Australia today
- Climate
- Land and its characteristics
- Growth of land settlement
- Agriculture generally
- Wheat farming
- Dairying and allied industries
- Fruit growing
- Viticulture and wine-making
- Pastoral
- Forestry
- Mining
- Fish and fisheries
- Pearls and pearlshell
- Our great North-West
- Secondary industries
- Water conservation
- Perth the capital city
- Ports, Communication by land water and air
- Education
- Western Australia for the migrant
- Tourist resorts
- Aboriginals
- Wildflowers
Similar titles in the same era included non governmental items with very close sounding items:
- A handbook to Western Australia and its gold-fields : being a guide to the resources (agricultural, mineral and miscellaneous) of the colony, and a collection of hints to the intending immigrant[16]
References edit
- ^ "NEW HANDBOOK WESTERN AUSTRALIA". The Daily News. Vol. XI, no. 6420. Western Australia. 16 September 1892. p. 3. Retrieved 9 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "NEW HANDBOOK OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA". The Inquirer and Commercial News. Vol. LI, no. 17, 470. Western Australia. 17 September 1892. p. 3. Retrieved 9 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Handbook of West Australia". The Southern Cross Miner. Vol. 1, no. 25. Western Australia. 28 April 1900. p. 3. Retrieved 9 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "THE PARIS EXHIBITION". Western Mail. Vol. XV, no. 747. Western Australia. 21 April 1900. p. 10. Retrieved 9 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "THE PARIS EXHIBITION". The West Australian. Vol. 16, no. 4, 404. Western Australia. 14 April 1900. p. 3. Retrieved 9 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "AN OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA". Western Mail. Vol. XXVII, no. 1, 379. Western Australia. 1 June 1912. p. 42. Retrieved 9 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "THE HANDBOOK OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA". The West Australian. Vol. XXVIII, no. 8, 097. Western Australia. 14 March 1912. p. 5. Retrieved 9 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "THE HANDBOOK OF W.A." Daily Herald. Vol. 3, no. 782. South Australia. 11 September 1912. p. 9. Retrieved 9 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Western Australia (1925), An official handbook for the information of commercial men, migrants, and tourists, Simpson, Govt. Print, retrieved 9 October 2021
- ^ Western Australia (1925), Western Australia : an official handbook for the information of commercial men, migrants, and tourists, Government Printer, retrieved 9 October 2021
- ^ ""WESTERN AUSTRALIA"". Sunday Times (Perth). No. 1450. Western Australia. 25 October 1925. p. 2 (First Section). Retrieved 9 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "BOOKS IN BRIEF". The West Australian. Vol. XLI, no. 7, 309. Western Australia. 31 October 1925. p. 15. Retrieved 9 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "NOTES AND COMMENTS". The Daily News. Vol. XLIV, no. 15, 763. Western Australia. 31 October 1925. p. 7. Retrieved 9 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Compilation of the volume by L Ramsciott and J.S.Bridgman "NEWS AND NOTES". The West Australian. Vol. XLI, no. 7, 310. Western Australia. 2 November 1925. p. 8. Retrieved 9 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ The description has the item as an unpublished manuscript - either a cataloguing error, or an unusual item Western Australia : an official handbook for the information of commercial men, migrants and tourists / compiled under the authority of the Government of Western Australia, Fred. Wm. Simpson, 1925, retrieved 10 October 2021
- ^ Parsons, Harold G (1894), A handbook to Western Australia and its gold-fields : being a guide to the resources (agricultural, mineral and miscellaneous) of the colony, and a collection of hints to the intending immigrant, George Robertson & Company, retrieved 9 October 2021