AnnualReport-1919

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Annexe C.

GOVERNMENT GUNPOWDER DEPÔT.

During the year 1919 there has been stored in the Government Gunpowder Depôt, Green Island :—

No. of Cases Approximate Weight lb. Gunpowder, privately owned, 2,275 76,750 Do., Government owned, 43 4,202 Cartridges, privately owned, 76 7,810 Do., Government owned, 46 4,550 Explosive Compounds, privately owned, 6,557 357,550 Do., Government owned, 80 5,226 Non-explosives, privately owned, 153 32,075 Do., Government owned, 82 11,175 Total, 9,312 499,338

During the same period there has been delivered out of the Depôt :-

No. of Cases Approximate Weight lb. For Sale in the Colony : Gunpowder, privately owned, 76 1,925 Cartridges, privately owned, 21 2,200 Explosive Compounds, privately owned, 780 59,800 Non-explosives, privately owned, 5 1,225 For Export- Gunpowder, privately owned, 128 4,550 Cartridges, privately owned, 1 150 Explosive Compounds, privately owned, 3,003 160,275 Non-explosives, privately owned, 13 2,875 Delivered to be destroyed :— Cartridges, Gunpowder, privately owned, 934 46,670 Government owned :- Gunpowder, 16 1,600 Explosive Compounds, 6 600 45 3,556 Non-explosives, 31 7,905 Total, 5,259 293,331