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rendered valuable assistance to this Colony; but it was considered that, having regard to the relative revenues of the Gold Coast Colony and those of the combined Colonies of Lagos and Southern Nigeria, the annual contribution of the former should not at present exceed three-fourths of the latter.
3. According to the figures given in the Colonial Office List for 1906, the Gold Coast Revenue for 1904 was £682,193; while that for Lagos, during the same period, was £410,250; and that for Southern Nigeria, £550,232. The ratio, which has not since been materially altered, between the Gold Coast annual revenue and that of the combined Colonies is, therefore, approximately 7:10; and the respective areas and requirements of the Colonies and Protectorates concerned are approximately
the same.
4. Under these circumstances, the Legislative Council considered that, instead of the annual contribution of £700 being equally divided, as suggested in the circular despatch, the division should be, at all event at first, £300 from the Gold Coast and £400 from the combined Colonies of Lagos and Southern Nigeria; and resolved to vote £75 for the last quarter of the current year, and to place a vote of £300 on the estimates for 1907.
I have, &c.,
JOHN RODGER,
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No. 46.
VICTORIA.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received October 29, 1906.)
(No. 53.) MY LORD,
State Government House, Melbourne, September 25, 1906. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's circular despatch of the 31st July last upon the subject of the Imperial Institute and to inform you that my Government cannot see its way to make any contribution towards the support of the Institute.
I have, &c.,
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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(No. 123.)
MY LORD,
No. 45.
SEYCHELLES.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received October 29, 1906.)
[Copy to Board of Trade, November 20, 1906. L.F.]
[Answered by No. 52.]
Governor.
Government House, Seychelles, September 15, 1906. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Circular (1) of the 31st July last* dealing with the development of the Imperial Institute.
2. I have not sent a telegraphic answer as suggested in the sixteenth para- graph, because the support asked for from the revenue of Seychelles is but a con- tinuation of the small payment hitherto made under contribution to general funds.
3. This Colony has very greatly benefitted from the work done by the Science and Technical Department, not only indirectly from the bulletins which are closely studied by officials and planters, and when of direct interest are reproduced in the form of popular lectures, but directly by the analyses, reports, and valuations which have recently been furnished on the special application of this Government.
The whole community of Seychelles values the special reports made on ques tions dealing with the preparation of vanilla and coprah. But, in addition, the development of new products to replace the staple industry of vanilla has been greatly advanced by advice from Professor Dunstan. During the present year, valuable information has been received regarding the market for phosphate guano, the desiccation of bananas, and the preparation of mangrove bark, of essential oils, and of citrate of lime.
4. So highly is the assistance and advice of the Department valued that I should have no doubt of receiving the unanimous support of the Legislative Council, the Agricultural Board, and the whole community of planters, even under the present straitened conditions of the Colony, were I to propose an increase to the contribution.
I have, &c.,
W. E. DAVIDSON,
Governor.
No. 47.
MAURITIUS.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received October 29, 1906.)
(No. 378.) MY LORD,
[Answered November 19, 1906, General (39780).]
Government House, Mauritius, September 27, 1906. IN confirmation and amplification of my telegraphic despatch addressed to your Lordship on the 26th current, † reporting that the Council of Government had unanimously passed a vote for three years of £150 per annum as a contribution towards the expenses of the Imperial Institute as set out and described in your Lordship's circular (1) despatch of the 31st of July,* and in accordance with the request therein contained, I have the honour to state that, in view of the urgency of the matter, inasmuch as your Lordship asked for a telegraphic answer to the despatch and wished that the contribution should date from the 1st proximo, I made an appeal to the Council to deal with the question, as one of urgency, at their first meeting after the receipt of your communication.
2. The result was as already mentioned, and I shall be glad to be favoured with an expression of your Lordship's views of the action taken by the Legislature in order that I may communicate it to the members of that body.
3. I transmit a copy of the minute which I addressed to the Council upon which the vote was taken.
(No. 52 of 1906.)
Enclosure in No. 47.
MINUTE.
I have, &c.,
· CAVENDISH BOYLE.
Contribution towards the management and maintenance of the Imperial Institute. The Governor has the honour to lay before the Council of Government a despatch (in the original) on the subject of the management and maintenance of the Imperial Institute, which he received from the Secretary of State on the 21st current.
The Earl of Elgin has asked that a telegraphic reply may be sent to his repre- sentations and request, and, as time does not suffice for the production and presenta- tion to the Council of the document as a sessional paper in the usual form, the Governor requests that it may be treated as a matter of urgency, and hopes that the
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