APPENDIX II.
SELECTED INDICES OF ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE.
The following index figures have been selected from Supplement No. 4 to the Government Gazette, or calculated therefrom, to illustrate the economic position of the Colony at the end of 1950, as compared with 1947. The base in the majority of cases is the monthly average for 1947, and indices on this base (printed in heavy type) may therefore be compared with one another.
Reference
No. of
Relevant
Table
INDICES ON BASE
Base
Monthly Average
Monthly Average
Monthly Average
1948
1949
1950
130
11
Employees in
Total Dec., 1947
Dec., 1948
Dec., 1949
Dec., 1950'
Registered
Factories &
(64,499 persons) 100
63,873 persons 99.0
81,566 persons
91,986 persons
126.5
142.6
Workshops
13
Factories
Registered
Monthly Average, 1947 (43 factories)
100
24 factories
55.8
19 factories
44.2
35
Tonnages of
Vegetables
Marketed
Monthly Average, 1947 (1,413.5 tons) 100
1,582.2 tons
111.9
1,721.5 tons
121.8
2,451.7 tons
173.4
37
Animals
Slaughtered
Monthly Average, 1947 (41,249 animals)
49,272 animals 119.5
48,091 animals 116.6
47,738 animals 115.7
100
38
Production of
Fluid Milk
Monthly Average, 1947 (32,544 gals.)
42.987 gals.
132.1
63,076 gals. 193.8
76,353 gals.
234.6
100
46
Tonnages of Fish Marketed
Monthly Average, 1947
(1,361.45 tons)
2,252.42 tons
165.4
2,813.60 tons
206.7
2,607.97 tons
191.6
100