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TABLE G
Imports of Principal Articles by Steamers during the years 1927-28, 1928-29 and 1929-38.
QrunTr Valck
Abtzclks.
1927-28 1028-29 1929-30 1927-28 1928-29 1929-30
£ £ £
Anchors . Nos. 225 52 129 75 61 60
Barley Cwtl 32 4
Building Materials Value 67 483 187*
Cartridges Box 174 1.624 *
Carpets . Value 167
Charcoal ... Cwi. 36 898 922 20 180 302
O'gaiytie paper. Cases 36 GO
Coal and Coal tar Cwt 13 40 5 133 5
Ooffoo • 3,253 2,087 800 16,283 11,910 7.419
Coir and coir rope Va7ue 2,891 1,992 1.755
Cotton ... Cwt 225 148 252 350 247 504
Drugs ... Value 27
Firewood . 56
Fruits (dried sod fresh) re 50 13 27
re
Grocery . 1.202 1,490 990
Groundnuts . • (Vt. 214 163 858 572 279 221
Gunny Bags Value 249
Haberdashery . m 23.890
Hanna. < 64
Hard and Glassware . • Cases 3,170 21,126 16.663
•Iron and Ironware Value 1,304 461 1,570
Limes, dried Cwt 42 84 93 66
Machinery Value 302
Matches . L2$0 M2! 833
Metals 793 176 33
Motor Cars and Cycles Nc os. 14 18 23 2.034 1,667 2,500
Newspapers (old) Value 15
Oil Kerosene Galls. 42,048 1,749
Oil (other sorts) 972 4S0 238 80 3S9
Old Clothing Bales 36 120 1,075
Onions Cwt. 5,766 99G 1.S08 513
Paints and Colours . Value 121
Petrol and Benzine - Calls. 15,719 33.890 1.534 2,832
Piece Goods Value 60,434 55,333 30^80
Potatoes . Cwt. 6,491 997 1.728 513
_ Provisions .Value 158
Pulses CwL T.222 * *480 815 320
Rioe .... 22,930 84,421 116,791 55,287 56,368 66.457
Sail Cloth re 16 53
Saltpetre . | . Vai ue 13
Sewing Machines Nos. 29 97
Sim Sim . Cwt 237 255 154 170 133
Soap .... Value 407 485 440
Specie .... re 9,112 2,984 19,598
Spices .... 20 90 351
40
Starch .... ee 193 187 8,624
Sugar-Loaf Cwt. 2,438 5.528 11,-550 848 3,961
Sugar Soft re 11.SSS 16.484 42.330 74.586 14,872 2U«
725
Tallow .... 118 620 299 404 1,654 1,001
Tamarind 1,341 2.038 402 894 1,087 23,224
Tea . 1,697 3.722 184 9,747 24,536
128
Timber . Value 25 681
Tobacco > Cwt. 36 875 249 1,407 77
Twist and" Yam Value
Tyres • Pkga. 21 16 74 210 28
Vegetable Products . Cases 607 810 746
67
384
Vermicelli Pkgv 480 1,608 543
Wheat . Cwt 3,193 3,381 232 1.703 3.467
Wheat Flour . - re. 8,295 7,443 074 4,403 4.631
Wood and Wood Elbows Value 75
Articles not specified above. re 100 21 5 *1
Total £ . 274,485 215,754 226,456

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