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of the births 75 '33 per cent, were illegitimate ; there were 100 marriages. There were 17 elcnieutarv school* in 1917-18. Revenue (1919-20), 70,158/. ; expenditure (1919-20), "70,829/. Imports (1918-19^, 307,954/. ; exports, 262,880/. Chief products sugar, cotton and pineapples. In Government savings banks 1,276 depositors, on Mar^h 31, 1919, 32,250/. deposits. There is steam communication direct with the United Kingdom, New York, and Canada, and the island is connected with the West India and Panama Telegraph Company's cable. Telephone line, 300 miles.
Island Secretary. — T. R. St. Johnston. Colonial Secretary of the Leeward Islands.
Montserrat. Nominated Executive and Legislative Councils. Chief town, Plymouth, 1,534 (1911). Revenue (1919-20), 19,336/.; expenditure, 16,014/. "Imports (1919), 59,145/.; exports, 102,057/. Chief products cotton, sugar, lime-juice, cotton seed, cattle and papain ; 1,000 acres under lime trees, and 2,700 acres under cotton.
Commissioner. — C. F. CondelL
St. Christopher (St. Kitts) asd Nevis (with Asontu) have one Executive Council, nominated, and a Legislative Council of 6 official and 6 nominated unofficial members. Chief town of St. Kitts. Basseterre : popu- lation, 8,159 ; of Nevis, Charlestown, 912. Revenue (1919-20), 80,007/.: ex- penditure, 73,501/. Imports, 1919, 364,090/.: exports, 425,450/. Chief produce : sugar, syrup, cotton, and coconuts. Anguilla produces cotton and salt. Savings Bank (1919) 391 depositors, 15,113/. deposits. Administrator. — Major J. A. Burdon, C.M.G.
Thr British Virgin Islands consist of all the group not occupied by the U.S. America. The total area, including about 82 islands, is 58 square miles. The population at the census of 1911 was 5,562, and at the end of 1915 it was estimated at 6,112. There is a Nominated Executive Council. The chief islands of the group are Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada and Jost- Van-Dykes. Road Town, the port of entry, is situated in Tortola, and at the census of 1911 had a population of 410. Cotton is the chief industry, while limes, sugar, coconuts and provision crops are also grown. Revenue (1919-20). 14,880/. ; expenditure, 8,149/. ; imports (1919), 19,709/. ; exports, 13,362/. Savings bank (1919-20), 119 depositors ; deposits, 1,3767.
■:brkf.o is a small island in the Leeward Islands group, attached administratively to the Presidency of the Virgin Islands. Phosphate of limt used to be quarried, and there is a Board of Trade lighthouse.
Dominica. Nominated Executive Council, and Legislative Council of 12 nominated members. Chief town, Roseau (population, 7,000) ; population of island 1919, 40,315. Revenue (1919-20), 56,097/. ; expenditure, 52,095/. public debt, 32,872/. Imports, 1919, 203.360/. (from U.K., 39,877/.; Canada, 45,902/.; U.S.A. 73,473/.); exports, 256,789/. (to U.K , 95,790/.) Chief products, limes, lime juice, citrate of lime, bay oil, lime oil, orange oil, cocoa, coconuts, fine molasses and fruit. Exports of coconuts 1919, 492,426. Savings bank (1919-20), 606 depositors, with 8,582/. deposits. Telephone line 490 miles. Dominica contains a Carib settlement with a population of about 400, the majority being of mixed Negro blood, but about 100 apparently pure Caribs.
Administrator.— Robert Walter, C.M.G.
