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 REVENUE, ETC. — PRODUCTION, ETC. — IMPORTS, ETC. 335

in 1918 there were 361, 435 and 400 students respectively. The number of schools of all kinds (1918) was: Church of England, 437 ; Roman Catholic, 830; Methodist, 387, and other denominations, 58. The attendance at Board schools (1919) was: Church of England, 16,164; Roman Catholic, 16,428 ; Methodist, 15,563, and others, 2,687 ; total, 50,842 : total expendi- ture, including Government grants, fees, kc., 570,637 dollars.

Revenue and expenditure i" five years ended June SO (1 dollar = 4s. l$d.):—

-

1913-14

1915-16

19!

1917-18 £

1918-19

Revenue Expenditure.

£

743,7ms

£ 849,915

£

2S3

i>-.o,i-:i

Of the Revenue for 1913-14, 633,793/. ; for 1915-16, 812,086/.; for 1916-17, 918,943/.; for 1917-18, 1,012,031/.; for 1918-19, 1,478,203/., were from Customs. Public debt (1919), 42,032,786 dollars (8,640,072/.)

Production, &C— The chief agricultural products in 1915 were : hay, potatoes, cabbage, turnips, and oats ; the total value of all crops harvested Veing estimated at 3,000,000 dollars. In 1911 (census figures) there were in Newfoundland 13,288 horses, 40,427 cattle, 100,447 sheep, and 27,575 swine. Some fine pine forests exist to the north, and large saw mills have been established. The mineral resources of Newfoundland are considerable. Large beds of iron ore have been found on Bell Island in Conception Bay, on the east coast, and other rich deposits have been discovered on the west coast. The total deposits are estimated at about 3,600 million tons. Exports, 1918-19, 709,338 tons. Copper ore and pyrites are worked. In 1918-19, only 136 tons of ore were mined, valued at 3,573 dollars. Coal is found near St. George's Bay on the west coast, and in the Grand Lake district. In the eastern part of the island gold-bearing quartz rock and extensive deposits of silver and lead ore have been found. Extensive paper and pulp mills have been erected at Grand Falls, Bishop's Falls, and at Lomond in Bonne Bay, and one at Alexander Bay is about to be built.

Imports and exports, including bullion and specie, for five years : —.

Tears ended June 30

Imports Exports

1915-14

(pre-war)

£ 3,121,998 3,109,837

1910-17

£ 4,382,097 4,600,695

1917-1S

1918-19

1919- 'JO

£ £ £

5,528,000 6,S44,421 8,331,864 6,198,000 7,561,282 7,164,935

The chief imports and exports in 1918-19 were : —

Imports (191S

-19) Dollars

Exports (1918-19)

Dollars

Textiles.

3,992,420

Dried cod

24,316,830

Flour

2,857,253

Pulp and paper

1 2,020,522

Coal

1,331,428

Iron ore, &c. .

783,844

Hardware

3,625,850

Herring.

2,535,534

Salt pork

1,474,175

Seal oil.

884.318

Machinery

659,2-26

i Cod oil.

1.411.518

Tea

405.353

Seal skins

398.375

Mola-

752,359

Lobsters (.tinnt 1

102,334