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16. Appendix G.-PRINCIPAL IMPORTS FROM NETHERLANDS INDIA, &o., 1901.
$ 000 omitted.
Exports (in Piculs) to all Countries (excluding Inter-Settlement Trade) of the following Articles of Produce
from 1897 to 1901.
Coffee
Copra
$
562
Brought forward
91,467
3,726
Spices--Mace
YEAR.
Tin.
Gambier (bale and cube).
Black Pepper.
Tapiocas.
Bago Flour.
Gambier
1,639
"
Nutmegs
152
587
Rattana-
3,879
Cloves
48
"
Black Pepper-
8,187
Gums-Copal
005
2807
752 307
947 408
239 547
670 602
636 621
White
578
Dammar
205
"1
13
766 217
892 098
194 049
801 997
605 169
Long
58
"
D
Benjamin
557
1008
Sugar
4,213
11
Camphor -
15
759 551
843 679
199 069
868 130
605 432
1809
Tapiocas
118
Hides (Raw)
-
300
806 936
785 298
204 569
725 988
575 753
Gutta Percha
8,544
Cotton
927
11
1900
Borneo Rubber
693
Canes and Sticks
16
882 204
678 403
223 663
771 748
631 336
1901
India
Tin
37
Beche de Mer
527
11
1,845
Fish Maws
Tobacco.
1,139
Horne
22
75
19
Oil Cocoanut ·
857
Petroleum
2,393
*
19
Kachung
383
Nuta, Illipi
40
Exports of Sugar from Penang, 1897-1901.
Sagos
Shella
894
Rice
6
-
200
Areca Nuts
1,161
YEAR.
Picals.
Valued at.
Average Value per Picul
Spices-Cardamums
04
Sundries
7.647
Carried forward
$ 31,487
TOTAL -
$ 47,047
$
$
1897
387 763
1 876 506
4.84
1898
440 338
2 321 857
6.27
1899
344 983
1 931 810
5.59
1900
376 995
2 195 888
*.8%
1901
357 288
3 028 944
5,67
Singapore,
17th December 1902.
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17. Appendix H.-SCHIDULE of Monthly Wages (Food and Lodging provided free) of CHINESE IMMIGRants, ('oolies, Artizans, &c., from 1898 to 1901 (as per Contract Register, Chinese Protectorate).
YEAR
Coffee
Brickmakers. Surveyors. Tauners.
Carpenters. Gold, Tin, and
Plantera.
Vegetable
Planters.
Coal Miners.
Other Natives (Food not Provided).
General
Labourers.
Mandors.
1808
.
1809
2
1900
$
LA
Ex
=
*
1901
Iz
=
11
44
14
=
16
$
6049
12 to 15
a fow at
$20 to $30
*
1 8 9 9.
APPENDIX:
1900.
EXTRACT from Singapore, Gambia, and Pepper Society's Letter of 24th November 1902, in answer to Chaniber of Commerce.
MONTHLY WAGES.
11
1901.
COOLIES ARE CLAFSED UNDER THREE HEADS :-
1. Common Coolies -
2. Coolies for Boiling and Cutting Leaves -
3. Coolies attending to Pepper Vines.
Note.-Although the monthly wages entered upon formal deeds
arranging
About
$
8 %
00 8
Fl
*
2
About
8 50
11
14
*
*
2 8
About
8 50
09 6
14
About
"
$
contract show no change in rates, it is understood that the practice has for considerable time back generally prevailed of employers
the coolien on arrival at scene of their work to substitute the system of “ payment by results" in lieu of monthly wages. In this case the rate of monthly wages recorded in the coolics'
contract agreement is misleading and is no guide,
1898.