STATISTICS
285
Exports including bullion and specie.
1907
1908
£
314,198=^
3,409,288
2,525,171
736,755
374,138
1909
£
406,722=^
4,169,161
2,655,573
981,466
477,964
1910
1911
N. Nigeria Prot.^ . S. Nigeria Gold Coast Sierra Leone . Gambia .
£
235,488
4,202,704
2,641,674
831,259
408,476
8,084,000
£
352,9813 5,304,186 2,697,706 1,249,367
535,447
836,268^
5,391,467
3,792,454
1,300,238
682,036
Totals 2 .
7,045,00018,284,000
9,787,000
11,166,000
1 See note under imports (above). 3
2 Exclusive of duplicate entries.
Chief exports (1911) from Northern Nigeria: tin ore, 189,174Z. ; palm oil, 23,915Z. Soutlirrn Nigeria Protectorate and Colony : palm produce 4,271, 280Z.; rubber, 179,353Z. ; cocoa, 164,664Z. ; raw cotton, 71,512Z Gold Coast : rubber, 219,447/'. ; palm-oil, 128,916Z. ; palm kernels, 175,891Z. gold, 1,057,692Z.; cocoa, 1,613,468?.; lumber, 138,821Z. ; specie, 321,145/ Sierra Leone : palm kernels, 657,348Z. ; palm-oil, 69,927?.; ginger, 44,668Z. kola nuts, 194,312Z. Gambia: ground nuts, 437,472?.; palm kernels 4,758?.; hides. 7,607Z.
Northern Nigeria Protectorate Southern Nigeria ....
Gold Coast
Sierra Leone
Gambia
Totalsl
7,937,000
Im]iorts from U.K., 1911
Exports to U.K., 1911
£
486,465
3,870,428
2,842,895
950,815
272,501
£
517,804
2,583,590
2,453,629
313,572
63,612
5,414,000
1 Excluding duplicate entries.
The recorded values and quantities are, in general, those disclosed by invoices and declarations, but spirits are gauged and measured. At Gambia and Gold Coast the cost of freight, insurance, and packages is added to the invoice value of imports, and the cost of packages is added to the declared value of exports. The imports into Gambia are only those for consumption. The countries of origin and destination are those shown by the shipping documents.
Tonnage of all the vessels entered and cleared in foreign trade at the West African Colonies, and of British vessels entered and cleared, for live years : —
1907
1908
bo I
S. Nigeria Gold Coast Sierra Leone Gambia
Total
1,396,3071,480,042
2,333,4412,215,735
1,890.531 2,046,152
453,784 418,441
6,074,063 6,160,270
1909
1910
1,513,014 1,601,045
2,498,295 !2,599,388
2,191,132 1,994,290
495,963 506,914
1911
1,610,668
2,676,440
2,493,439
480,911
6,698,404 6,701,637 i 7,261,458
