NOTE.-The figures for the year 1923 are, in some cases, subject to future revision.

435

436

439

441

443

446

449

453

454

STATISTICAL DEPARTMENT,

BOARD OF TRADE,

LONDON, S. W. 1,

September, 1926.

A. W. FLUX.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

No. 1.-WEIGHTS AND MEASURES OF VARIOUS BRITISH OVERSEA DOMINIONS AND PROTECTORATES, WITH THE ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS.

MONEY.

No. 2.-MONEY OF VARIOUS BRITISH OVERSEA DOMINIONS AND
PROTECTORATES, WITH THE ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS.

Note.-For purposes of abbreviation the term Rx. has, in some cases, been used in the Tables in this Abstract to denote 10 rupees. In India 1 pice 3 pies; 12 pies: = 1 anna; 16 annas = 1 rupee. A lakh (lac) is 100,000 rupees, and a crore is 100 lakhs.

(a) In HONG KONG, conversions into £ sterling have been made at the following rates:

(b) Local currency from 1st April 1920 to 31st December 1921 was florin or rupee (2s. 0d.) and in prior years rupee (18. 4d.).

AREA AND POPULATION.

No. 3.—AREA and POPULATION according to the CENSUS taken in each of the

(a) Including Christmas Island, Labuan and the Cocos (or Keeling) Islands. The military and the floating population are included in the population figures. (b) The population is exclusive of the military and persons on ships in harbours. (c) The population is exclusive of the military. (d) Estimated figures for 1903. (e) The area (13 sq. miles) and the population (17,049 persons at the census of 1921) of part of the New Territories (New Kowloon) have been included with the figures for Hong Kong from 1904 inclusive. (f) The population is exclusive of full-blooded Aborigines, estimated at 60,000 in 1923. (g) The area (293 sq. miles) and population (13,209 persons at the census of 1921) of the Cook and other islands of the Pacific are excluded, as are also the "Outlying Islands "of an area of 284 sq. miles. The Maori population (43,143 in 1901, 49,844 in 1911, and 52,751 in 1921), and the inhabitants of the mandatory Territory of Western Samoa (37,157 in 1921) are also excluded. (h) As estimated on 1st June, 1923. (i) Including South Georgia, but excluding the Dependencies of Falkland Islands (which extend to the South Pole) the area of which is estimated at 3,100,000 sq. miles (j) Inclusive of 17,323 persons, sex not stated. (k) Census of 1904.

AREA AND POPULATION.

Years 1901, 1911, and 1921, and as estimated on the 31st December, 1923, so far as available.

(1) Partly estimated-a census of natives not being available. (m) Population as stated in the Northern Nigeria report for 1904-5, and based on estimates made in 1904 by Residents in charge in the various Provinces of the Protectorate. (n) Including the Protected Districts. (0) Including the area of lakes, rivers and seas situated within the territorial limits of the Dominion of Canada. (p) Inclusive of particulars for the mandated area of the Cameroons. (q) The population given is exclusive of certain Aborigines estimated to number 9,700 at the census of 1921. (r) Inclusive of the Mandatory Territories of the Cameroons and Togoland. For particulars relating to other Mandatory Territories, &c., see Appendices, pp. 436, et seq. (8) Including 16,377 sq. miles of water within the territorial limits of the Uganda Protectorate. (t) Population of Administered Provinces only. (u) Inclusive of particulars for the mandated area of Togoland. (v) The Gilbert and Ellice groups were placed under British Protection in 1892. Ocean Island was annexed to the Protectorates in 1900 and Union Islands in 1911. The Protectorates were annexed on 12th November, 1915, and are now known as "Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony." In 1916 Fanning Island and Washington Island were added to the Colony. (w) Estimated figures. (x) Cyprus, which had been administered by England under a Convention, dated 4th June, 1878, was annexed on 5th November, 1914. (y) Exclusive of natives in the unadministered area of Rudolf, whose total population is estimated at 150,000.