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 STATISTICS

285

Exports including bullion and specie.

1907

1908

£

314,198=^

3,409,288

2,525,171

736,755

374,138

1909

£

406,722=^

4,169,161

2,655,573

981,466

477,964

1910

1911

N. Nigeria Prot.^. S. Nigeria Gold Coast Sierra Leone. Gambia.

£

235,488

4,202,704

2,641,674

831,259

408,476

8,084,000

£

352,9813 5,304,186 2,697,706 1,249,367

535,447

836,268^

5,391,467

3,792,454

1,300,238

682,036

Totals 2.

7,045,00018,284,000

9,787,000

11,166,000

1 See note under imports (above). 3

2 Exclusive of duplicate entries.

Chief exports (1911) from Northern Nigeria: tin ore, 189,174Z. ; palm oil, 23,915Z. Soutlirrn Nigeria Protectorate and Colony : palm produce 4,271, 280Z.; rubber, 179,353Z. ; cocoa, 164,664Z. ; raw cotton, 71,512Z Gold Coast : rubber, 219,447/'. ; palm-oil, 128,916Z. ; palm kernels, 175,891Z. gold, 1,057,692Z.; cocoa, 1,613,468?.; lumber, 138,821Z. ; specie, 321,145/ Sierra Leone : palm kernels, 657,348Z. ; palm-oil, 69,927?.; ginger, 44,668Z. kola nuts, 194,312Z. Gambia: ground nuts, 437,472?.; palm kernels 4,758?.; hides. 7,607Z.

Northern Nigeria Protectorate Southern Nigeria ....

Gold Coast

Sierra Leone

Gambia

Totalsl

7,937,000

Im]iorts from U.K., 1911

Exports to U.K., 1911

£

486,465

3,870,428

2,842,895

950,815

272,501

£

517,804

2,583,590

2,453,629

313,572

63,612

5,414,000

1 Excluding duplicate entries.

The recorded values and quantities are, in general, those disclosed by invoices and declarations, but spirits are gauged and measured. At Gambia and Gold Coast the cost of freight, insurance, and packages is added to the invoice value of imports, and the cost of packages is added to the declared value of exports. The imports into Gambia are only those for consumption. The countries of origin and destination are those shown by the shipping documents.

Tonnage of all the vessels entered and cleared in foreign trade at the West African Colonies, and of British vessels entered and cleared, for live years : —

1907

1908

bo I

S. Nigeria Gold Coast Sierra Leone Gambia

Total

1,396,3071,480,042

2,333,4412,215,735

1,890.531 2,046,152

453,784 418,441

6,074,063 6,160,270

1909

1910

1,513,014 1,601,045

2,498,295 !2,599,388

2,191,132 1,994,290

495,963 506,914

1911

1,610,668

2,676,440

2,493,439

480,911

6,698,404 6,701,637 i 7,261,458