1901.
Public Revenue
£70,000
Public Expenditure
£65,000
1913. £91,000 £86,000
Loan Expenditure, 1901-13
4
£1,604
Public Debt
£124,000
Shipping entered and cleared, net tonnage
544,000
£124,000 656,000
1900.
Imports (excluding bullion and specie) Exports (ditto)
£232,000
£276,000
£311,000
£367,000
PRINCIPAL EXPORTS.
Cocoa
Cotton
Nutmegs
Mace
£270,000 Nil.
£303,000
£10,000
£25,000
£25,000
£4,000
£19,000
COMMUNICATIONS.
Railway Mileage
Telegraph Mileage
Telephone Mileage
Nil,
Nil 106
Nil.
Nil. 159
The main production of Grenada is cocoa, though the following are also cultivated:- Cotton, rubber, lime, coffee, kola nut, cloves, vanilla, pepper, cardamoms, coconuts, nutmegs. As an export spices take second place, though far behind cocoa,
In 1917 a local loan of £100,000 was issued for various public works, including roads and water services, construction of an esplanade and purchase of a dredger.
Motor transport is developing rapidly. In the 1917-18 Report, it is stated that up to then 150 cars had been imported, all but two American.
The United States of America has during the war displaced the United Kingdom as the chief source of imports, and it is thought by the Colonial Secretary that the United Kingdom can only regain its position by a reduction in cable rates and better steamship services to and from the United Kingdom.
During the present century, up to the outbreak of war, Grenada did not show any marked development, but the proposed capital expenditure referred to above may make a big change.
BAHAMAS.
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In mattore of trade the Bahamas are linked much more closely to the United States than to the United Kingdom, which is only to be expected from the geographical situation.
The principal occupations connected with export trade are sponge fishing and the culti- vation of the Sisal Fibre plant.
Cotton was once cultivated extensively, but has now practically ceased to be grown. The sugar cane grows luxuriantly but is little cultivated.
Of course, a Colony consisting of only 4,404 square miles, distributed over no less than 20 inhabited islands strung out in a chain over 500 miles long presents problems entirely different from those of a compact Colony.
The Colony is a great resort for American tourists,
There has been little active capital development for many years, despite the evidently great potentialities, and, in consequence, there has not been the trade development which might be realised with a different policy.
LEEWARD ISLANDS.
Virgin Islands, St. Christopher, Nevis, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, and Redonda and Dominica.
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Population (1911), 127,000. Area, 715 square miles.
1901.
Public Revenue
£123,000
Public Expenditure
£133,000
1913. £174,000 £171,000
Loan Expenditure 1901-13
£10,000
Public Debt
£286,000
£266,000
Shipping entered and cleared, net tonnage (including
inter-island shipping)
1,796,000
2,028,000
1900.
...
Imports (excluding bullion and specie and excluding
inter-island trade) Exports (excluding bullion and specie and excluding
re-exports)
£346,000
£564,000
£257,000
£502,000
PRINCIPAL EXPORTS.
Cocoa Cotton
£24,000
£24,000
Nil.
£78,000
Lime Juice and Limes and other Lime products Essential Oils Sugar and Molasses
£32,000
£100,000
£4,000
£181,000
£11,000 £190,000
Population (1911), 56,000. Area, 4,404 square miles.
COMMUNICATIONS,
1901.
1913.
Public Revenue
£78,000
£101,999
Public Expenditure
£81,000
£96,000
Railway Mileage
1901. Nil.
Nil.
Loan Expenditure, 1901-13
Nil.
Telegraph Mileage
14
14
Public Debt
£117,000
£94,000
Lelephone Mileage
141
Shipping entered and cleared, net tonnage
1,010,000
1,648,000
1,069 (Miles of wire.
Mileage
apparently about 300.)
1900.
Importa (excluding Bullion and Specie) Exports (ditto)
£308,000
£398,000
The chief productions of these islands are:-
Antigua-Sugar, cotton and pineapple.
£207,000
£264,000
PRINCIPAL EXPORTS.
Sponges
£104,000
£148,000
Hemp
£16,000
£70,000
Fruit
£71,000
£10,000
Wood
.£1,000
£20,000
Railway Mileage
Telegraph Mileage
Telephone Mileage
COMMUNICATIONS.
1901.
Nil.
Nil.
6
6
10
120 (Miles of wire. Miles
of line apparently
about 20.)
St. Christopher and Nevis.-Sugar, rum and molasses and cotton. Dominica.-Cocoa, line-juice, citrate of lime, coconuts, fruits and essential oils. Montserrat.-Lime-juice and cotton.
Virgin Islands.-Cotton,
The islands as a whole are an important source of sugar and of lime-juice and lime-juice products, while there seem to be considerable possibilities of developing the production of Sea İsland cotton.
The islands seem well provided with roads, and the development of motor transport will no doubt be a great feature.
Prior to the war, progress does not seem to have been very marked, nor was there any particular effort at development. The war appears to have provided a stimulus owing to the high world prices of the products of the islands,
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COOOA.
Quantity exported from the principal Producing Countries.
Production figures are not available.
Leeward Islands
Trinidad and Tobago
BRITISH POSSESSIONS,
(All Crown Colonies.)
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1901.
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