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7. Revenue and Expenditure. 



The following table shows the average annual revenue and 

 expenditure during the years 1914 — 1919 : — 



Revenue : 

 Timber . 

 Firewood . 

 Nursery trees . 



Total 



The figures show a small deficit of £932. 



8. Increment, Utilization and Industries. 



No data are available to gauge the increment, and the estimates 

 which have been made are so vague that they had better not be 

 put on record. The same holds good as regards loss by fire, waste 

 and decay. 



The output from the Government forests, 6 years' average, is 

 given as 3,388,080 cubic feet of timber and firewood, valued at 

 £10,000. 



Industries are at present restricted to the exploitation of timber 

 and firewood, but it is expected that the manufacture of paper 

 pulp from bamboos will be undertaken in the near future. 



9. Exports and I.mports. 



The following data represent the averages for the 6 years ending 

 March 31st, 1919 :— 



Quantity, 



cubic feet. Value, £. 



Exports, Timber . . . 327,421 . . 11,873 



Imports, Timber . . . 159,642 . . 16,725 



Excess of Exports over Imports . + 167,779 .. —4,852 



The greater part of the exports consists of Mangrove poles for the 

 Persian Gulf and South Arabian ports. The export of other 

 timber, valued at £1240, is of little importance, the cost of putting 

 it on the market being as yet very high. 



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