WEST INDIES 6 SS 



Ever increasing prosperity attends the cultivation of the lime (citrus acida var. medico), 

 the principal industry of Dominica. In 1910-11 lime crop for the year, 369,000 barrels, 

 shdwed an increase of 85,000 barrels as compared with 1909-10. The export of citrate of 

 lime amounted to 5194 cwt. valued at i6,88o-^an increase of 1747 cwt. A second citrate 

 works was established and the operations of an existing works extended.' I'n Montserrat 

 the total export of limes was valued at 9000. In a minor degree, Antigua, Nevis and the 

 Virgin Islands devote attention to this industry. 



Dominica also exported cacao to the extent of n,pr2 cwt. valued at 23,769. Cacao 

 also engages a certain measure of attention in some of the other islands. Dominica has also 

 embarked on rubber cultivation, a considerable area having been planted with Hevea bfnsil- 

 iensis. It is estimated that 40,000 plants are already in various stages of growth. 



The cultivation of coconuts attracts attention in Antigua and Nevis, and in the latter 

 island and in Dominica vanilla is receiving notice. 



The only manufactures of importance are connected with sugar in Antigua and St. 

 Kitts, Nevis and the cultivation of lime in Dominica. In St. Kitts rum is distilled. 



The total imports were valued at (1909) 471,016, (1910) 541,713; and exports (1909) 

 420,800, (1910) 537,832. The separate figures for imports in 1910 were:- Antigua 

 170,033; St. Kitts-Nevis, 192,541; Dominica, 140,925; Montserrat, 29,718; Virgin 

 Islands, 8496. For exports: Antigua, 196,184; St. Kitts-Nevis, 195,506; Dominica, 

 109,529; Montserrat, 30,003; Virgin Islands, 6610. The imports came chiefly from: 

 the United Kingdom, 229,193 in 1910 (an increase of 45,667), British Colonies 102,738 

 (+21,130), and the United States 191,148 (+1041). The exports went chiefly to: 

 the United Kingdom, 188,984 (+41,666), British Colonies 271,020 (+68,934), a d 

 United States 43,462 (+5175)- 



The total revenue was (1909-10) 149,670, (1910-11) 164,375; and expenditure (1909- 

 10) 149,906), (1910-11) 159,263. The revenue was raised by the respective Presidencies 

 in 1910-11 in the following proportions: Antigua 52,326; St. Kitts-Nevis 52,748; 

 Dominica 41,473; Montserrat 12,262; Virgin Islands' 5566. 



The surplus of assets over liabilities on March 31, 1911, amounted to 54,845. The 

 public debt of the Colony amounted to 273,250; the sinking fund stands at 80,688. 



There are 24,573 children on the registers of the Government and grant-aided schools of 

 the Colony, the average daily attendance being 12,082. There are 7 secondary schools in 

 receipt of grants from local funds. The Colony also assists a Moravian Training College 

 for females in Antigua, and furnishes an allowance for the training of local male students at 

 the Mico College, Jamaica. From Imperial funds grants are made towards Antigua^and 

 St. Kitts Grammar Schools and Dominica Agricultural School. The Presidencies maintain 

 in Antigua an industrial school to which boys are sent from each Presidency. 



The total number of persons committed to prison during 1910 was 1144; 3140 offences 

 were reported to the police; 13,458 persons were brought before the magistrates, and the 

 summary convictions numbered 6802. Convictions in the Superior Court totalled 39. 



Sir Henry Hesketh Bell, K.QM.G., was appointed Governor of the Leeward Islands in 

 1912. The Administrators were: St. Kitts-Nevis, Hon. T. L. Roxburgh, C.M.G.; Domin- 

 ica, Hon. L. Douglas Young, C.M.G.; Montserrat, Lt. Colonel L. B. Davidson-Houston, 

 C.M.G. (Commissioner); and the Virgin Islands Hon. T. L. H. Jarvis. 



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BRITISH GUIANA^ 



During 1909-12 the Government continued to obtain information with regard to the 

 extent and value of the vast forest resources of British Guiana, and an officer of the 

 Department of Lands and Mines with special qualifications for the work was appointed 

 to make a systematic and detailed examination of the Forest Lands. In 1910-11 the 

 Commissioners appointed to enquire into the question of the sea and river defences of 

 the colony presented their report. TheLr recommendations, which included the execu- 

 tion and maintenance in future of the sea defences by the Public Works Department 

 and the division of the colony into sea defence districts, were approved by the Combined 

 Court, which decided that the cost should be met by the estates, villages and other prop- 

 erties within each district, and by the Government: in the proportion of for the estates, 

 villages and other properties, and | from General Revenue. 



The census of April 1911 showed a population of 295,713, exclusive of the aboriginal 

 Indians in the unfrequented portions of the Colony. During 1910 there \vere 8332 

 births registered (27.5 per looo), a slight decrease on the previous year. Of the births 

 so registered, 60.1 per cent were illegitimate. The deaths registered were 10,424 (or 

 1057 more than in the previous year), giving a death rate of 34.4 per thousand. Mor- 

 tality among children continues high: 234 per thousand. 



1 See E. B. xii, 676 el seq. 



