មុខ
F
OD
24 2,048
35,468
2,682
9,789
1,865
4,849
328,003
49,201
990,943
100,888
680*219
889
21,546
9
56,659
12,280
3,990
1,292
11,088
113,685
9
*
C"
RETURN SHOWING the Value of the Imports INTO THE COLONY of Sierra Leone
DURING THE YEAR 1913.
United Kingdom
British West African Possessions
£1,138,683 163,158
British Possessions (other)
60
France
18,139
Germany
174,191
Holland
89,634
United States of America
54,055
Foreign West African Possessions
31,756
Other European countries
7,994
Other countries
72,633
Total ...
£1,750,303
The above total includes specie.
Enclosure 2 in No. 4.
To the Honourable Colonial Secretary,
SIR,
Freetown.
Sierra Leone Chamber of Commerce, Westmoreland Street,
Freetown, Sierra Leone, 11th December, 1916.
In reply to your esteemed favour of the 22nd ultimo, I am requested by the above Chamber to inform you that the following resolutions were passed unani- nously by that body:-
(1) Seeing that the palm kernel and palm oil industries, in which a large amount of British capital has been invested since the commencement of the War, particularly as the new capital has enabled Great Britain to deal so successfully, under great difficulties, with the output of kernels and palm oil from the British Colonies and the Colonies of the Allies, and again, as the palm kernels from these and other sources were before the War, so far as a very great percentage of them was concerned, shipped to Germany, this Chamber is of opinion that it is incumbent upon the Government to legislate for the adequate protection of the industries in question, and, by such protection, make it impossible for them to revert to Germany after the War.
(2) The meeting also expressed its unanimous opinion that an extra duty should be placed upon all imports and exports from and to the enemy countries, sufficiently heavy to protect the industries of the Allies.
(3) The meeting unanimously decided to request His Excellency the Governor to state if, according to paragraph 2 of Section " A," the Syrians, or any part of them, resident in the Colonies of the Allies are to be regarded as enemy subjects, and if they will be dealt with under this section. (4) Lastly, the following resolution was carried unanimously
"That no enemy subject should be allowed to hold land or carry on business or act as agent in the Colony or Protectorate of Sierra Leone until twenty-five years after the conclusion of peace."
I have, &c.,
H. T. WHITTINGTON,
Honorary Secretary, Sierra Leone Chamber of Commerce.
454
co.885/25
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-