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anil kola nuts are exported. There were in IPll, 70 schools, with 2,198 pupils on the rolls. A Government school for the sons and no- minees of native chiefs was established at Bo in the Railway district of the Protectorate on March 1, 1906. The school, which is under European supervision, opened with 18 pupils ; at the end of 1911 there were 110 pupils.

Gambia.

Gambia, at the mouth of the river Gambia, formerly formed part of the West African Settlements, but in December 1888 was erected into a separate Colony. The Colony is administered under a Governor with an Executive and a Legislative Council nominated. Area of Colony proper, 4 square miles; population 7,700. In the Protectorate (area, 4,500 square miles) the population is estimated at 138,400 (census 1911). With exception of the Island of St. Mary, on which Bathurst, the capital, stands, the whole Colony is administered on the Protectorate system. In June, 1901, an agreement was made with the local chief for the administration of the Fuladugu district by the British, both banks of the Gambia being now under direct British control up to the Anglo-French boundary.

There are 8 elementary Government-aided schools, with 1,432 pupils enrolled (1911); and an average attendance of about 472 standard pupils; Government grant, proportionate to results (1911), 6861. Of the elementary schools two are Roman Catholic, four Wesleyan, one Anglican, and one Mo- hammedan. The Wesleyans have also a secondary school with 29 boys, and a technical school with 19 pupils, which receives a grant of 300?. Total Government expenditure on education (1911), 2,040Z. There is a company of the West African Frontier Force of 126 men, and the Gambia Volunteer Artillery of 25 men. The civil police has a strength of 82 men. In 1911 there were 139 convictions (mostly of minor offences) in the colony and 367 in native courts in the Protectorate. Chief products and exports : ground nuts, bees'- wax, hides, and millet. The trade is mostly with France. (For statistics of finance, trade, and shipping, see the tables below.) Postal packets and parcels dealt with in 1911, 143,041. Bathurst is connected with St. Vincent (Cape de Verde) and with Sierra Leone by cable, but there are no local telegraphs or railways. The Gambia savings bank had 475 de- positors in 1911, and deposits amounting to 5,159?. Though the legal currency is British, French 5-franc pieces pass freely.

Governor.— 8iv H. L. Gal way, K.C.M.G., D.S.O. (2,500?.)

Secretary. —

Statistics of West African Possessions.

The following are the statistics of the West African colonies and pro- tectorates : —

Revenue

1907

N. Nigeria Prot. ^ ~.

S. Nigeria Prot. .

S. Nigeria Col (Lagos)

Gold Coast 2

Sierra Leone

Gambia

Totals

213,005

11,459,553

708,718

359,104

65,892

1908

1909

1910

1911

£ \ £ £ ' £

248,444' 283,436 344,989 558,121

1,387,975 l,361,89l|l,933,235 1,956,176

752,142 778,552|l, 006,633 1,111,632

321,000 361,326 424,215 457,759

57,898 72,675 82,880 86,454

.2,806,272 2,767,4-59 2,857,8813,791,952 4,170,142

1 For years euding March 31 of the year following those stated.

2 Excluding Imperial grants.