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 228 THE BRITISH EMPIRE : — WEST AFRICA

sleeping accommodation and a restaurant-car runs between Lagos and Zaria. A Government land transport system by pack and draft animals is in operation. The Government has for transport on the Niger and its tributaries 1 twin screw steamer, 6 stern-wheelers, 5 steam canoes, 1 motor canoe, 2 steam pinnaces, 1 steam tug, 17 steel poling canoes, 3 steam stern-wheel tugs, and a number of 11-90 ton barges. Telegraph lines are laid from the Lagos frontier to Jebba, thence to Lokoja, Zungeru, Kano, Yola, Sokoto and Maidugeri. The N. Nigeria telegraph system is now connected wdth the French Dahomey system. The total mileage telegraph line is 4,200.

British coinage is beginning to displace the barter system. There are branches of the Bank of British West Africa at Lokoja, Jebba, Zungeru and Zaria.

Governor and Commander-in-Chief.— ^\\' Frederick D. Lugard, G.C.M.G.,

D.S.O., C.B.

Chief Secretary.— C. L. Temple, C.M.G. Commandant. — Colonel E. P. Strickland, D.S.O.

Southern Nigeria.

By Royal Letters Patent dated the 28th of February, 1906, the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria is made to comprise the old Colony and Protectorate of Lagos, together with the old Protectorate of Southern Nigeria.

The Colony and Protectorate is divided into three Provinces, namely : the Western Province, consisting of the old Colony and Protectorate of Lagos, the Central Province and the Eastern Province. The two latter comprise the old Protectorate of Southern Nigeria. Each Province is presided over by a Provincial Commissioner, and divided into Districts under the charge of District Commissioners and Assistant District Com- missioners.

Governor and Commander-in-Chief.— ^\\ Frederick D. Lugard, G.C.M.G.,

D.S.O., C.B.

Colo7iial Secretary. — A. G. Boyle, C.M.G.

Provincial Commissioners.— F. S. James, C.M.G., H. Bedwell, Major H. C. Moorhouse, D.S.O.

The seat of Government is at Lagos, where is also the Supreme Court. There are Executive and Legislative Councils, the latter consisting of 15 members— 9 official and 6 unofficial.

The total area is about 79,880 square miles, and the native population (census 1911), 7,855,749, consisting of the Yoruba and Ibo people and a congeries of tribes of varying degrees of size and civilisation. European population is about 1,650, consisting of Government officials, traders, missionaries and others. The climate is not healthy for Europeans. The strength of the police force at the end of 1911 was 1,388, namely : Western Province, 617 ; Central Province, 332 ; and Eastern Province, 437. Persons apprehended 1911, 13,893 ; summarily convicted, 10,074 ; committed for

trial, 652.

Government lias instituted a system of primary and secondary schools, with a staff (1911) of 189 teachers, including 19 technical instructors. There is a residential school at Bonny, supported by Government grants, and by Chiefs' subscriptions. There is a Government secondary school and mission grammar school at Lagos, and a high school at Calabar. In 1911 there were 60 Government schools, 4 being girls' schools, and a large number of mission schools, 115 of which received assistance "from the Government. There were 5,G37 pupils (238 girls) in the Government schools, average attendance of

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