ENG-1950 — Page 166

APPENDIX II.

SELECTED INDICES OF ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE.

The following index figures have been selected from Supplement No. 4 to the Government Gazette, or calculated therefrom, to illustrate the economic position of the Colony at the end of 1950, as compared with 1947. 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 another.

Reference

No. of

Relevant

Table

INDICES ON BASE

Base

Monthly Average

Monthly Average

Monthly Average

1948

1949

1950

130

11

Employees in

Total Dec., 1947

Dec., 1948

Dec., 1949

Dec., 1950'

Registered

Factories &

(64,499 persons) 100

63,873 persons 99.0

81,566 persons

91,986 persons

126.5

142.6

Workshops

13

Factories

Registered

Monthly Average, 1947 (43 factories)

100

24 factories

55.8

19 factories

44.2

35

Tonnages of

Vegetables

Marketed

Monthly Average, 1947 (1,413.5 tons) 100

1,582.2 tons

111.9

1,721.5 tons

121.8

2,451.7 tons

173.4

37

Animals

Slaughtered

Monthly Average, 1947 (41,249 animals)

49,272 animals 119.5

48,091 animals 116.6

47,738 animals 115.7

100

38

Production of

Fluid Milk

Monthly Average, 1947 (32,544 gals.)

42.987 gals.

132.1

63,076 gals. 193.8

76,353 gals.

234.6

100

46

Tonnages of Fish Marketed

Monthly Average, 1947

(1,361.45 tons)

2,252.42 tons

165.4

2,813.60 tons

206.7

2,607.97 tons

191.6

100