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PROVINCE OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

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The following services are rendered free by | Estimated Departmental Receipts of the Union Government Departments. ! the Province.

1912-13.

£

1911-12. £

1912-13.

1911-12.

£

Agriculture

5

—

Hospital Fees

800

Public Health

250

—

Asylums

198

—

Receipts from Trout

Printing &. Stationery

4,500

7,500

Hatchery

300

Prisons

2,500

255

Forestry

100

MiscellaneoiTS

150

Public Works Depart-

ment

5,000

Posts, Telegraphs and

Telephones

4,450

10,000

Total ... £

17,003

17,855

1,250

Production and Industry.— In 1911, 1,712,250 acres of Crown lauds were alienated, the amount realised being 62,015Z. Up to December 31, 1911, the total area disposed of was about 140,000,000 acres, the quantity undisposed of being 35,9t)4,664 acres.

Regarding the area under cultivation there are no recent statistics.

In the year ending February 15, 1910, the chief agricultural produce of the Province, excluding the native territories, was : — wheat, 2,345,223 bushels (335,294 acres) ; barley, 660,336 bushels (63,165 acres) ; oats, 2,395,401 bushels (331,766 acres); maize, 1,428,987 bushels (221,631 acres) ; potatoes, 587,247 bushels (73,737 acres). There were in 1909, 21,552 acres of vines, and 3,494,656 gallons of wine and 675,072 gallons of brandy, &c., were produced. In 1911, there were 2,715,330 cattle, 333,962 horses, 17,134,513 sheep, and 505,730 pigs. Some irrigation works have been or are being executed, chiefly in the Breede and Fish river valleys, and surveys are in progress for new works. The alluvial lands are of no great area, and the difficulties in the way of irrigation are considerable.

The sheep-farms (mostly owned by the occupiers) are from 3,000 to 15,000 acres and upwards : those in tillage are comparatively small.

Mineral output for the year 1911 : —

Diamonds . Gold . . . Copper ore, &c. Tin ore . . Coal ....

2,250,000 carals

73 oz.

18,767 tons

7 „

79,485 ,,

value 5,506,000^.

310^.

503,908?.

1,023?.

,, 51,550?.

Commerce. — Since the coming into effect of the Union there are no special records of trade lor each of the Provinces. The Board of Trade statistics, however, continue to give details of trade between the United Kingdom ?ind each Province separately. The following figures show the value of the trade betwt.en the Cape of Good Hope Province and the United Kingdom for five years : —

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