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“.... 103,910
Drugs and medicines 94,360
Refined sugar, &c. ... 89,540
Paper... 85,560
Tobacco, cigarettes, &c. 67,650
Beans 55,300
Matches ............... 49,210
Beer ... 47,800
Shoes, &c. ... 47,040
Railway sleepers 45,080
Soy (sauce) ... ...... 42,400
Together with woollen goods, dyes, coal, kerosene oil, locomotives,
rails, bridge work, &c.
Machinery.—The figures given above represent a very great decline
from the two previous years, due to the filling of the orders from the
numerous sugar mills. Still, of the total of 117,510Z. given above,
sugar machinery represented a value of 106,5702., distributed amongst
countries of origin as follows :—
£
United Kingdom ............ 94,520
Germany ......... ...... 6,960
United States, including Hawaii...... 6,090...”
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“...per acre (involving a total expenditure of about 11,OOOZ.) has been
paid this year to farmers to cultivate sugar cane, thus paying for
extra fertilisation, &c. An extension of this scheme or extended
ownership of land by sugar companies would seem to be possible in
future.
At the end of 1912 there were the same number of sugar companies
as in the previous year, viz., 17 ; there was, however, an increase
from 32 modern style mills, with a crushing capacity of 34,4-10 tons
per day, to 33 mills of 35,600 tons capacity. It is anticipated that
during 1913 two more mills of 1,550 tons capacity will be added. The
area- of the cane plantations during 1912 was about 158,500 acres,
a considerable decrease from the previous year.
As was mentioned in last year's report, the direct subsidy to sugar
has ceased, but considerable assistance continues to be given in other
ways. A sum of 47.000L has been allotted for fertilisers and 25,000Z.
for cane shoots ; in previous years this help was given in kind...”
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