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 PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY — COMMERCE — BOOKS 2^,5

Estimates 1918-19: total revenue, 1,817,659/.; expenditure, 2,005,291/. A considerable proportion of the Provincial revenue is derived from Natives' Pass Fees.

The capital expenditure in 1918-19 was estimated at 300,000*.

Production and Industry. —The Province of the Transvaal is in the main a stock-raising country, though there are considerable areas well adapted for agriculture, including the growing of tropical crops. The extent of land under cultivation is given as OTer 2,000,000 acres; fallow land as about 470,000 acres; and grazing land as 29,900,000 acres. The maize and tobacco crops may be regarded as the most important.

The live stock numbered, in 1919, 3,244,840 sheep, 447,700 goats (including 90,700 of the valuable Angora breed).

For mineral production, see above, p. 220. The Transvaal Province has iron and brass foundries and engineering works, grain-mills, breweries, brick, tile, and pottery works, tobacco, soap, and candle factories, coach and wagon works, &c.

Commerce. — Since the coming into effect of the Union there are no special records of trade for each of the Provinces. The British Board of Trade statistics, however, continue to give details of trade between the United Kingdom and each Province. The following figures show the value of the trade between the Transvaal Province and the United Kingdom for five years : —

1918

1917

1918

I9!.>

19201

.

(pre-war)

£

£

£

£

4

Imports from Transvaal '

196,448

423,067

202,032

214,000

Exports of U.K. produce

and manufactures to

Transvaal.

5,751,9-20

6,047,412

6,924,576

4,861,092

12,261,000

Exports of foreign and

Colonial merchandise ,

482,636

169,888

167,316

1C2.239

549,000

1 Provisional figures

The more important imports and exports in 1919 were: — Imports into United Kingdom: copper regulus and precipitate, 52,482/. ; raw hides. 41,138/. Exports from United Kingdom (British produce) : Cottons, 585,835?. : woollens, 285,069/. ; apparel, 707,649/. ; machinery, 409,781/. ; iron and steel and manufactures, 689,882/. ; leather boots and shoes, 118.551/. ; chemicals and preparations, 186,129/. ; electrical goods, 133,770/.

Statistical and other Books of Reference.

Papers, Correspondence, Ac, relating to the Transvaal from 1852 to 1903. London.

History of the War in South Africa, 1899-1902. Compiled hy direction of H.M. Government. 2 vols. London. 1907.

The War in South Africa. Prepared in the Historical Section of the Great General 3tatT, Berlin. Trans, by Col. H. Du Cane. London, 1905.

Amry(Ju. S.), (Editor), "The Times" History of the War in South Africa, 1S99-1902 " vols. London, 1909.

Both* (P. M), From Boer to Boer and Englishman. [English Translation from the [>otch.] London, 1900.

Bryee (J.), Impressions of South Africa. 3rd ed. London, 1899.

Cappon (J.), Britain's Title in South Africa. 2nd. ed. London, 1902.

Cloete (H.), History of the Great Boer Trek and the Oriein of the South African Republics. London, 1899.

Colquhoun (A. R.), The Africander Land. London, 1906.