Part of the work has been done by convict labour, and part by farmers and settlers in payment for a loan advanced to them for seed-wheat before my arrival.

It is not too much to say that this work has saved the town of Geraldton and its harbour from destruction by sand.
29.

A little has been done in the way of improving the Swan River navigation by means of a dredge imported by Governor Hampton, and worked by prison labour and by an appropriation in the Loan Act of 1872.

A work has also been constructed, from funds provided out of the same loan, at Mandurah, by which the entrance to the Murray River has been improved.
30.

Harbour improvements have occupied much of the attention of Government.