sugar i'kudl'c tio.n ix mozamiuoue. 221 



Crops Oi;taim:i) Si.xce the Formation of thk Company. 



The following are the figures from the year 1908, when the 



first Crop was reapefl, until last year: — 



Raw Sugar. White Sugar, 



^'ear. Tons. Tons. 



1908 5,199 — 



1909 8,911 136 



191O 4,838 1,994 



191 1 8.949 1. 261 



1912 7^:^^^ 482 



The Crops in 1910 and 1912 were relatively small on account 

 of a severe drought. 



This year's Crop, now in course of production, is estimated 

 at 10,000 tons. 



The Sugar produced during the years mentioned was dis- 

 posed of as follows : — 



Raw. White. 



International Electrical Congress.— In con^ 



junction with the International Electrical Congress, which is to 

 be held at San Francisco during September, 1915, the following 

 South African Engineers have been appointed honorary members 

 of the International Committee on Congress organisation : Prof. 

 John Orr. .South African School of Mines and Technology, 

 Johannesburg; Mr. J. H. Rider, P.O. Box 4563. Johannesburg; 

 Mr. J. Hubert Davies. P.T). Box 1386. Johannesburg; and ^Ir. 

 Frank Pickering, South African Railways. Capetown. 



African Insects. — The Journal of the African Society 

 announce.-^ that one of the most capable entomologists in the 

 United States Bureau of Entomolbg)-. ^Ir. \\\ F. Fiske. has been 

 engaged to make a thorough investigation of the bionomics of the 

 tsetse fly. Glossina niorsitans. He will work under the direction 

 of the Royal Society, and the expense will be borne by the (tOv- 

 ernment of Xyasalancl. As a ])reliminary. he has gone to Uganda, 

 to investigate Glossina palpalis. Thence he will go to Xyasaland 

 for the purpose of his special study. It is interesting to note, in 

 this connection, the considerable increase that has taken place 

 recently in the work of the Entomological Research Committee. 

 The Committee's activities last vear had. as its outstanding fea- 

 ture, the establishment of the Imperial Bureau of Entomo!og}^ 

 80.000 specimens of insects were received during the year, of 

 which 75 per cent, came from Tropical Africa. 



