(iii) Actual revenue amounted to $430,511 as against an estimate of $184,719
 and at the end of the year $30,328 was due for reimbursement from Her
 Majesty's Government.

 14. Savings Bank. Please see Appendix XIV.
The excess of liabilities over assets-$12,855-is shown as a foot-note on the
Statement of Assets and Liabilities at Appendix I. The total number of depositors
in 1954 was 2,234 as compared with 3,326 at the end of 1953.

 15. Public Debt. This is shown in Appendix XIII. The Public Debt at 31st
December, 1954, amounted to $637,875 and the accumulated funds for its redemp-
tion is $173,218 as compared with a Public Debt of $543,267 and accumulated funds
of $159,203 at the end of 1953.

 V. TRADE.
 16. The total value of the Colony's visible external trade in 1954 was $9,726,400
of which Imports were valued at $5,456,000 and, Exports at $4,270,400. The
corresponding figure in respect of the previous year was $7,878,411 of which Im-
ports were $4,504,320 and Exports $3,281,091. The increase of $1,847,989 in the
value of Imports and in the value of Exports was due prncipally to the importa-
tion of prefabricated buildings and arrowroot machinery, also the rise in volume'
of the principal items of exports.

 17. A comparative statement of these items is shown in Table B and a similar
statement in respect of Imports for the seven years ended 31st December, 1954,
and the prewar year 1930 is shown in Table A.

 18. The direction of the Colony's Import Trade for the period 1952-1954 is
shown hereunder:-
 


 Origin



United Kingdom
Canada
Other British Possessions
United States of America
Other. Foreign Countries

Total Customs & Parcel Post
Add Miscellaneous & unclas-
 sified Parcel Post

 TOTAL


Value 1954;

$ %


2,277,400 i41-78
936,400 17-19
995,900 18-27
645,800 11-84
594,900 10-92

5,450,400 i100

 5,600

5,456,000 100


Value 1953

 $ %


Value 1952

 $ %


1,979,798 43-1 2,097,426
930,701 20-3 1,008,317
851,316 19-1 849,243
531,322 60-9 513,096
291,859 6-4 316,096

4,584,996 100 4,784,178

 9,324 78,358

4,594,320 4,862,536
 Ii


 19. The value of Exports in 1954 amounted to $4,270,400 of which $4,199,400
represents domestic exports and $70,800 re-exports. The corresponding figures in
the previous year were-total Exports $3,281,091, comprising domestic exports
$3,248,057 and re-exports $33,034.
 Export statistics for the last sixteen years are given in Table B.

 20. The'direction of the Colony's Export Trade during 1952-1954-is given
hereunder:-


 Destination



United Kingdom
Canada
Other British Possessi
United States of Ame
Other Foreign Countr


Value 1954 Value 1953 Value 1952

 $ % $ % $


ions
rica
ies


%o


 748,100 17-52 684,717 20-9 893,237 S6
 73,900 1-73 52,808 1-7 73,598 2
1,193,600 27.95 1,199,439 35-6 1,020,355 29
2,196,600 51-44 1,307,191 39-7 1,477,843 42
 58,200 1-36 36,936 1-1 23.621 1

4,270,400 100 3,281 691 100 3,488,654 100


43.8
21-1
17-8
10-7
 6.6

100


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