BOOKS OF REFERENCE
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postage, 21,609?. ; interest, 31,535/.; licences, 8,087/. ; Coutribntion from Home Government, nil. Chief branches of expenditure, 1911-12 : — Estab- lishments, 295,371/.; interest, 22,596/.; pensions, 24,215/.; public works, 81,223/. Public debt, 79,081/. Savings bank (1911-12) had 7,559 de- positors, and deposits, 542.851/.
Chief products : potatoes, oranges, figs, grapes, mandarines, honey, and corn. Area cultivated, 41,866 acres in about 11,100 holdings, of 37 acres per holding, on leases of 4 to 8 years. Manufactures : cotton, filigree. Chief industry, farming ; in 1911-12, horse.s, muh.-s and asses uuniliercd 9,439 ; horned cattle, 5,724 ; sheep, 16,424 ; goats, 16,925.
There are import duties on beer, spirits, wine, tobacco, sugar, wheat, maize, barley, saggina, flour, living cattle and sheep, horses and mules, fresh and frozen meat, oil, potatoes, seeds, pulse, and biscuits.
—
1908-09
1909-10
1910-11
1911-12
Imports .
Ex])orts .
£
1,273,049 120,336
£ 2,344,360
802,876
£ 2,356,043
863,429
£
2, 61 .% 51 9
987,844
Transhipment trade is excluded. Principal imports, 1911-12 : coal, 348,704/.; iron and steel manufactures, 55,876/.; cotton goods, 91,064/.; meat, 63,353/.; wheat, 337,913/.; beer, spirit.s, wine, 149,301/.; bullocks, 104,460/.; sugar, 83,195/. ; bullion and specie, 201,162/.
Of thetotalimports inl911-12, 1,141,140/. was from the United Kingdom ; 62,641/. from Briti.sh possessions ; and 1,411,738/. from foreign countries. Of exports, 34,890/. was to the United Kingdom ; 30,802/. to British pos- .scssions ; 359,075/. to foreign countries ; and 354,156/. bunker coal shipped on merchant vessels.
Vessels entered (1911-12), 2,931, of 4,119,221 tons; cleared, 2,911, of 4,121,599 tons. Of the total entered,997 vessels of 2,219,643 ton.s^'ffe British. Belonging to the port of Valetta on Jan. 1, 1912, were 67 saiH^g ves.sels of 3,078 tons, and 35 steamers of 372 tons; total, lO^veslsels ^ 3,450 tons. , \ ■"orf
Railway, Smiles of metre gauge (belonging to and worked by Jfclie local government) ; telephones, 768 miles of wire. The Post-offixre traffic in 1911-12 was : Inland letters and postcards receii^ed',\ 87J,962; newspapers received, 265,343 ; despatched, letters and p6s1^ar4s, 694,863 ; newspapers, 213,915 ; in foreign correspondence, received, l^^ters, 1,037,881 ; pi0stcards, 148,512 ; newspapers, 717,002; despatchec\ letters, 1, 568, 216'-f postcards, 252,018 ; newspapers, 153,062 ; parcels. re^ieiVed 47,462 ; 4^.spatched 18,760. ^
British coins are the only legal tepi^r. The araoi|ht/in circulation o^ \ -^ March 31, 1912, is roughly estimated at 490,000/. The notes of the A"k1o\\AV Maltese Bank and the Banco di Malta are in circulation ; but as the Banks^ \ are not under statutory control and do not publish balance sheets the ^m^unt of the note circulation is not known.
Books of Reference
Colonial Report. Annual. London.
Correspondence Relating to the Political Con and [Cd. IGOO], 1903.— Correspondence in regard Theatre Royal, Malta, 1906. Also Dispatch from Se London, 1906.
BaZiou (M.M.), The Story of Malta. Boston, 1893
/.ucas (^0. P.). Historical Geography of the British Colonies. 2nd ed. Vol. L Lomlon, 190G.
Mizzi (M. A. M.), A Voice from Malta. Malta, 1896.
P'T<7e(G. A.),Giiide to the Laws and Re^nlations of Malta. Malta, 1892.
Report of the Royal Commission on the Finances, Economic Position, and the Ji djcial Procedure of Malta, 1912. [Cd. 6090.]
8^ TCd.'^15], 1901
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