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Selected Indices of Economic Significance.

The following index figures, selected from those included in the tables in the Supplement C. 7/11 or calculated from figures therein, are presented as affording from different angles an indication of the economic position in the Colony at the end of the year 1948 as compared with the position in 1947. another, The base in the majority of cases is the monthly average for 1947, and indices on this base (printed in heavy type) may therefore be compared with one

Reference

No. of

relevant

table of

Supplement,

Base

• Indices on

Base

December, 1948

Monthly Average, 1948

Monthly Average, 1947 ($129,160,121)

100

($101,402,797)

100

(669,424 tons)

100

100

"

""

(125,740 persons)

>>

>>

(132,603 persons)

""

100

($624,946)

100

(229)

100

$258,248,746

199.9 $184,713,203 182.1

762,423 tons

113.9 178,088 persons

141.6

171,220 persons

129.1

$1,056,597

169.0

$173,128,218

134.0 $131,894,976

130.0

774,732 tons

115.7 166,481,persons

132.4

175,615 persons

132.4

$805,582

128.9

596

260.2

>>

>>

C.7/II

I (i) (a)

Value of Imports

1 (i) (b)

Value of Exports..

3

Tonnage of Shipping (over 60 tons net)

cleared.

6

Immigration

Emigration

53

"

100

Total, December, 1947 (64,499 persons)

100

Monthly Average, 1947 (43 factories)

7

ΙΟ

Post Office Revenue

Arrivals of Aircraft at Kaitak.

12-A

Employees in Registered

Factories and Workshops.

12-C

Registered factories

777

339.3

63,873, persons

99.0

6 factories

13.9

24 factories

55.8