242
Liwonde
13
Estates
J
92
Section 2.
To come in at nearest point to Liwonde (80 miles) :—
[Say half cotton and half tobacco, and one-third of total area cultivated-
Upper Shire... 23 Dēdza (4)
"
9,151 12,963
་་་
93
***
That for private persons I exclude as it is provided for in the preceding calcula- tions for planters and others, but the armount for a year may be put at double the 6 months' figures -19,419 x 2
Food stuff from Lake ports for Government departments may be put at 600 tons, not included in the above figures. This will be carried between the Lake and Zomba 80 miles x 600 ...
88,838
...
...
48,000
9
3,910
45
26,024
Tobacco 4,338 acres at 5
4338 acres to the ton, x 80
5 Cotton 4,338 acres at 20
4338 acres to the ton, X, 80
20
Timber from Mlanje for Public Works Department, to be railed from Luchenza
69,408
to Zomba 200 tons × 45 miles...
9,000
Total
673,788
17,352
Summary.
1. Produce for Export ton miles
Section 3.
To go on at terminus on Lake, 125 miles, reckoning as before one-third of total area cultivated :-
Add to this North Charterlands, 500 tons for 125 miles (included
under head II) ...
---
428,726
62,500
491,226
Total Produce for Export, ton miles
II. IMPORth and GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
As regards Planters this will probably include heavy.machinery and agricultural implements, general stores, food for labour, &c., and a reasonable estimate may be put at not less than an average of 5 tons per estate.
Tobacco.
Colton.
Dedza (†)
9
3,911
Tobacco and cotton
652
652
Lilongwe
10
10,000
Tobacco only
3,333
S. Nyasa Dowa
35
19,230
Tobacco and ootton
3,205
3,205
1
15,000
Cotton only
5,000
56
48,141
7,190
8,857
Tobacco
7190
5
X 125
179,750
Cotton
8857
20
X 125
55,356
To the above may be added:
Native produce
From Portuguese territory
Tobacco Cotton.
200
80 200
200
280
480 tona x 125 miles
60,000
428,726
2. Importa and General Merchandise
Deduct as above, North Charterlands
***
673,788 62,500
611,288
Or, in round figures, say :-
Produce to be carried General Merchandise
500,000 ton miles. 600,000 39
Total
1,100,000,, "
No. 18.
THE GOVERNOR OF NYASALAND to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 2 a.m., 25th December, 1920.)
[TELEGRAM.]
December 22nd. My despatch 11th November Confidential;" Railway. Have conferred with Roy. He concurs fully that most inadvisable to constract motor road, and, looking to certain rise in cost of local labour, strongly recommends proceeding with construction of earthworks, according to plan, permanent way to prescribed gauge, but suggests obtaining lighter rails and rolling stock second hand from Rhodesian and Union of South African Railways, as to which he is making enquiry. With this I could provide for heavy traffic for some years and relay and replenish when materials and money cheapen. Urge strongly that Disposals Board be approached as to the supply of materials, permanent way rolling stock and bridge work free, if possible, or at lowest possible charge. Copies of his report follow by post.—SMITH.
Section 1-
(a) Magomero
(b) Zomba
Section 2
Section 3
Portuguese Territory
...
18 x 5 x 25 17 x 5 x 45 45 x 5 x 80
=
2,250
=
3,825
18,000
55 x 5 x 125
=
34,375
20 x 5, x 125
12,500
70,950
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
885/26
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BRITISH GUIANA.
No. 19.
MR. GIDEON MURRAY to THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE.
6, ST. JAMES'S COURT, S.W.,
15th December, 1919.
THE question of the economic development of the interior of British Guiana is one which has occupied attention for many years, but without tangible result. The main cause for this has been sparsity of population, or, in other words, shortage of labour. British Guiana, with ite 90,000 square miles of territory, of which hardly the fringe has been scratched, has for long been known to be rich in minerals, such as gold and diamonds, whilst there are also large undeveloped agricultura! and timber resources and an unlimited water-power. More recently big deposits of bauzita fore of alumina) have been located.
2. From time to time propositions have been made to the Colonial Government and the Colonial Office for concessions to construct a trans-Colonial Railway to the Brazilian Border. with a view to opening up these natural resources, but none of these proposals have met with approval, usually because the financial stability of the promoters would not bear investigation Added to this, hostility has always been evinced on the part of the British Guiana sugar planters to any project for railway development in the interior which was unaccompanied by settlement proposals for labourers, owing to the amount of labour available in the Colony being already inadequate to carry on the existing industries. The whole population numbers only 310,000, of which about half are East Indians and about 5,000 are Chinese.
• No. 17.
125,000
SIR,
North Eastern Rhodesia-North Charterlands, &c., via Fort Jameson,
the North Charterlands Company put their present traffic at 300 tons mwards and 400 outwards. If others be added, and increase of production allowed by the time the railway is constructed, 1,000 tons all told will not be an excessive quantity to take. Assuming that the Dumira Bay-Fort Johnston feeder is constructed, this will come on at the terminus 1,000 × 125...
African Lakes Corporation and Other Traders.
The African Lakes put their normal traffic at 1,400 tons to and from the Lake, 1,400 × 125
200 tons to and from places on the Liwonde-Fort Jameson route = 200 × 80 Figures are not available for other Nyasaland trading firms and Indians, but Assuming that they collectively deal with at least as much as the African Lakes Corporation, the amount carried may be doubled
(Mtengula, Portuguese East Africa, will also provide a good deal of traffic. the more so with the recent development of work of the Portuguese-Nyasa Company.)
Government Transport.
By motor lorries (figures for 6 months, 1st January to 30th June, 1920), cargo
carried-
19,419 ton miles. 11,644
For Government
For private persons
St
*
175,000
6,000
191,000
81,063 "
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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