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average attendance ; Government grant, 1,702^. There is also a secondary school for boys (41 pupils), one for gii'ls (22 pupils), and an agricultural school (15 pupils). Fourteen convictions in the Supreme Court, and 883 in the Inferior Court, in 1911-12. Arrowroot, cotton (5,068 acres in 1911-12), sugar, rum, cocoa, and spices are produced. The Sea Island cotton grown is the best in the British Empire, if not the world. St. Vincent in addition is famed for the excellence of its arrowroot. Good timber from the forests. Much of the cultivated land is in a few hands, but a large peasant proprietary is being established under Government auspices, and many small hoMings in the high mountain lands have been sold by the Crown. About 20,000 acres (one-fourth of area) under culti- vation. Besides the postal service, there is a telephone system Avith about 147 miles of line.
St. Lucia. Adniimntrator and Colonial Sccretartj, E. J. Cameron, C.M.G., with a nominated Executive and Legislative Council. Area, 233 square miles ; population (Census 1911), 48,637. Chief town, Castries. Births (1911-12), 1,868 ; deaths, 1,114. Education (1911) : 53 schools (7 Protestant, 46 Roman Catholic), with 7,268 irapils on roll; Government grant, 3,912Z. Education is also carried on in 2 other schools which are in receipt of a Government Grant of, together, 550Z. In 1911-12 there were 1,324 summary convictions, and 11 convictions in superior courts. Sugar, cocoa, and rum are the chief products. Savings banks (end of 1911), 1,625 depositors, 19,778^. deposits. Letters and post-cards despatched, 106,239; books and papers, 8,566; parcels, 479. There are 101 miles of telephone line.
Statistics of West Indies.
Revenue
Exjicndituvc
1900-10
1910-11
1911-12
1909-10
£
1910-11
£
1911-12
£
£
£
£
Bahamas J .
77,578
84,391
85,693
92,858
85,314
82,676
Jamaica
1,104,317
1,176,167
1,356,092
1,173,242
1.135,095
1,350,551
Turks &Gaicos Islamls
7,748
8,646
8,318
(1,654
6,827
7,695
Windward Islands :—
St. Lucia .
65,740
65,066
71,979
64,446
67,288
69,329
St. Vincent
28,440
.30,125
34,852
31,331
30,343
33,735
Barbados .
195,803
213,298
221,906
199,625
211,949
215,697
Grenada .
71,224
81,413
98,645
73,282
75,528
81,012
Leeward Islands
149,670
164,390
174,818
149,406
159,263
158,924
Trinidad and Tobago .
858,565
948,383
950,744
863,254
927,034
959,551
Total .
2,614,085
2,771,864
3,002,947
2,654,098
2,698,674
2,959,170
1 Estimated Revenue, 1912-13, £89,106; Expenditure, £87,000.
Customs revenue (1911-12) :— Bahamas, 71,563/. ; Barbados, 131,683/.; Jamaica, 494,361/.; St. Lucia, 35,782/.; St. Vincent, 1.5,951/.; Turks and Caicos Islands. 5,660/.; Grenada, 46,221/. ; Leeward Islands, 102,247/.; Trinidad and Tobago, 464,425/.
In 1912 tlie Public Debt of Jamaica was 3,871,305/. ; of Bahamas, 96,720/. : of Barbados, 422,900/. ; of Trinidad and Tobago, 1,047,793/. ; of St. Lucia, 144,730/. ; of St. Vincent, nil (but municipal debts of 5,508/.); Grenada, 123,670/.; Leeward Islands, 267,050/.; Turks and Caicos Islands, nil.
