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compared with $549 million in 1947, and $170 million in 1939. The record total for December, $789,706,067 was the equivalent of over £49 million.

At the end of December 1948 there were 25,000 pigs, 8,000 cattle, 650 buffaloes, 200 goats and 9 sheep in the Colony as against about 10,000 pigs, 5,800 cattle, 680 buffaloes, 200 goats and no sheep at the end of the war.

Only 87 thousand man day were lost through strikes in 1948 as against 294 thousand in 1947 and 108 thousand in 1946.

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There are 21,236 employees in Government service prising 7,349 permanent, 9,520 temporary and 4,367 daily paid employees. The biggest employers are the Sanitary Department with 4,234, the Public Works Department with 3,753, the Police with 3,619 and the Medical Department with 3,136.

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