yam spades, prints, muslins, calicoes, navy blue, cheap quilts, Crimean shirts, undershirts, chemises, white coat drill, ships' biscuits (in tins holding from 6 to 35 lbs., retailing from 3s. to 16s. per tin), flour, preserved meat, canned salmon, British herrings, sardines (retailing at 3d. to 6d. per tin), sugar, rice and building material. Aërated waters are mostly supplied by a local manufacturer, who puts up a very good article and is well patronised. Merely a small quantity is imported. Ice. There are two manufactories fully supplying the demand. It was sold at about 2d. per lb. Motors.--Motor boats have been used of late years by several merchants up and down the coast of German Samoa. Consequently there was a small demand for motor engines, their requisites and fuel. Most of the motors are American, with a few German, and two or three British. There were five motor cars in use, of which three are German. Bicycles and bicycle requisites, long neglected, have again come into use. Carriages and buggies. Nearly every leading native family possesses a vehicle of some kind, mostly light traps (two and four-wheeled), nearly all of which are of local manufacture; the material generally being imported from Sydney, and the vehicles then built here by half-caste coachbuilders, who do really good work, although few amongst them have had an opportunity of learning their trade under skilled workmen. A brisk demand is thus created for harness and carriage material, lamps, carriage paints, whips, and black, brown and drab oil duck for carriage backs and cushions. Lumber. Nearly all lumber came from Puget Sound, comprising tongued and grooved boards, weather boards, rough pine lumber and a limited quantity of redwood, brought generally in American schooners carrying from 500,000 to 1,000,000 feet. The freight was about 21. per 1,000 feet. New Zealand kauri was imported for manufacturing furniture, clothes boxes, &c., and used also as boat boards. It was brought from Auckland. The information contained in the foregoing import particulars has been supplied mainly by one of the Apia merchants. Subjoined will be found Table 1, return of shipping at the port of Apia during the year 1913; Tables 2 (A) and 2 (B), imports and exports at the port of Apia during the year 1913; Table 3, return of shipping and of imports and exports at Pago Pago, Tutuila, during the year 1913, courteously furnished by the United States authorities there. Table 1.—RETURN of all Shipping Entered and Cleared at the Port of Apia during the Year 1913 (excluding Coasters and Ships of War). ENTERED. 8 Table 2 (A).-COMPARATIVE Table showing the Value of Imports at Apia, Samoa, from various Foreign Countries, and Exports by Classes of Goods, during the Years 1911-13. * "Specific" goods are beer, wines and spirits, tobacco, cigars, arms and gunpowder. + For countries to which goods were exported, see Table 2 (B). NOTE. In the above table 20 marks are taken to be equivalent to 17. 6 NOTE. In the above are included 133 tons copra imported in 1913 from other islands. Table 3.-RETURN of Imports and Exports, also Incoming and Outgoing Tonnage, at the Port of Pago Pago, Tutuila, during the Year 1913. NOTE.-The above statement does not include merchandise for the United States Navy. The exports consist of copra only. Exchange computed at 5 dol. to the ll. |