47
219
1900.
1913,
Imports
(Excluding bullion and specie; including coal for
bunkering)
£391,000
£288,000
Exporta
(Excluding bullion and specie and coal for ships)
£102,000
£125,000
PRINCIPAL EXPORTS.
£38,000
£37,000
£54,000
£65,000
Railway Mileage
Telegraph Mileage
Telephone Miles of Wire
COMMUNICATIONS.
1901.
Nil.
Nil.
120
Nil.
Nil. 213
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The fact that petrol is a local produce should facilitate the development of road motor transport.
During the war the progress of Trinidad has continued unabated. The cocoa crop and the sugar crop were both "records" in 1917.
Important work is being done by the Board of Agriculture in instructing the small culti- vator and in fighting agricultural pests and diseases,
The Forest Department is also very active.
In 1917, on the suggestion of the Legislative Council, a Committee was appointed to con- sider the measures necessary for the development of the resources of the Colony after the war.
The Committee is considering road and railway extension, the establishment of motor-lorry services, improvement in coastal steamer service, and. of ship-loading facilities, the improve- ment of telegraphs and telephones, the provision of improved water supplies in the towns and villages, and the reclamation and drainage of swamp lands.
Trinidad is a splendid example of the application of public and private capital in a tropical country of great natural resources, and the inhabitants are clearly determined to proceed further on the same tines.
CocoB Sugar
BARBADOS.
Public Revenue
Population (1911), 172,000. Area 166 sq. miles.
Public Expenditure
Loan Expenditure 1901-1913
Public Debt
---
Shipping entered and cleared, Net Tonnage Imports (excluding bullion and specie) Exports
Raw Cotton
"
Cotton Manufactures
Fish, dried, salted or smoked
7
1901. £180,000
£175,000
1913, £215,000 £222,000
£50,000
£429,000
£437,000
1,476,000
3,772,000
The island is probably too small for railways to be justified, but no doubt motor road trans- port will have a great future.
In 1915-16 a local loan of £20,000 was raised for a comprehensive scheme of road construc- tion. St. Lucia is an important coaling station, so its main communications are excellent.
The main agricultural industries are lime cultivation, cocoa and sugar.
There is a lime juice factory, two rum distilleries, and a bay rum industry has been established.
The Agricultural Department is giving the planters and peasants considerable assistance. If the island continues its roads and agricultural education policies, it should have a prosperous future.
£1,022,000 £950,000
£1,352,000
£835,000
ST. VINCENT,
PRINCIPAL EXPORTS.
Nil
£23,000
Population (1911), 42,000. Area, 140 square miles.
£37,000
£39,000
1901.
1913.
£24,000
£41,000
Public Revanue
£26,612
Rice
Molasses
Sugar
Railway Mileage
£23,000
£18,000
Public Expenditure
£29,572
£84,373 £38,173
£144,000
£377,000
Loan Expenditure, 1901-13
£858
£565,000
£92,000*
Public Debt
£13,000
Shipping entered and cleared, net tonnage
361,000
£1,000 270,000
COMMUNICATIONS.
1900.
28
Nil 63
28
Nil
71
Imports (excluding Bullion and Specie)
£96,000
£123,000
Telegraph Mileage
Telephone Mileage†
The island is largely visited as a health resort by residents from British Guinea and the neighbouring West Indian Colonies.
The temporary slump in sugar exports in 1913 gives a misleading appearance to the comparative export figures for 1901 and 1913.
During the war there has been a rapid increase in the exports of sugar and in 1917 the total was 51,960 tons as compared with 29,867 tons in 1915 and 9,939 tona in the bad year 1913. There has been a similar increase in the export of molasses.
The revival of cotton growing was a result of official effort, assisted by the British Cotton Growing Association.
There has been no railway development for 20 years.
There is a very good road system and there are 474 miles of road suitable for motor traffic. Barbados is evidently capable of great progress, but apart from the revival of cotton growing little appears to have been done in the right direction, and this is the evident cause of the stagnation during the present century.
ST. LUCIA.
Population (1911), 49,000. Aren, 233 square miles.
HI
Loan Expenditure 1901-13
Public Revenue
Public Expenditure
Public Debt
Shipping entered and cleared
Net tonnage
2313,000 in 1912 and £254,000 in 1914.
1901.
1913.
£67,365
£67,490
£67,486
£174,000
£68,353
Nil.
£140,000
1,885,000
3,547,000
Exports (ditto.)
Arrowroot Cotton
Sugar
Railway Mileage
Telegraph Mileage
Telephone Mileaget
1901. Nil.
Nil.
5
5
77
77
St. Vincent produces and exports arrowroot, maize, cotton, cocoa and sugar. Transport is mainly by water, though there is a fairly good road running round the island. It produces the best Sea Island cotton in the Empire. A Government ginnery has been erected for ginning the cotton.
The Agricultural Department has done excellent work in controlling the cotton atainer pest. The action of the Imperial Government in authorising the Local Government to pur- share all Sea Island cotton on its behalf has provided a good market and greatly stimulated the planting of cotton. The export of sugar has grown from 250 lbs. in 1913, to 1,264,000 lbs. în 1917, but it is expected that the attention to cotton will restrict the future exports of sugar.
Bt. Vincent, though a tiny Colony, is an admirable example of the development which an result from the right kind of assistance.
• £94,000 in 1899 and £52,000 in 1901.
† Excluding mileage of wires connecting subscribers with trunk line.
£98,000*
£109,000
PRINCIPAL EXPORTS.
£29,000
£328
£63,000 £36,000
£9,000
£172
COMMUNICATIONS.
+ Exolusive of mileage of a private company, whose mileage cannot be stated, but which in 1915 had about
2,000 miles of wire in use.
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GRENADA.
Population (1911), 67,000. Area, 133 square miles.
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