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average attendance ; Government grant, 1,702^. There is also a secondary school for boys (41 pupils), one for gii'ls (22 pupils), and an agricultural school (15 pupils). Fourteen convictions in the Supreme Court, and 883 in the Inferior Court, in 1911-12. Arrowroot, cotton (5,068 acres in 1911-12), sugar, rum, cocoa, and spices are produced. The Sea Island cotton grown is the best in the British Empire, if not the world. St. Vincent in addition is famed for the excellence of its arrowroot. Good timber from the forests. Much of the cultivated land is in a few hands, but a large peasant proprietary is being established under Government auspices, and many small hoMings in the high mountain lands have been sold by the Crown. About 20,000 acres (one-fourth of area) under culti- vation. Besides the postal service, there is a telephone system Avith about 147 miles of line.

St. Lucia. Adniimntrator and Colonial Sccretartj, E. J. Cameron, C.M.G., with a nominated Executive and Legislative Council. Area, 233 square miles ; population (Census 1911), 48,637. Chief town, Castries. Births (1911-12), 1,868 ; deaths, 1,114. Education (1911) : 53 schools (7 Protestant, 46 Roman Catholic), with 7,268 irapils on roll; Government grant, 3,912Z. Education is also carried on in 2 other schools which are in receipt of a Government Grant of, together, 550Z. In 1911-12 there were 1,324 summary convictions, and 11 convictions in superior courts. Sugar, cocoa, and rum are the chief products. Savings banks (end of 1911), 1,625 depositors, 19,778^. deposits. Letters and post-cards despatched, 106,239; books and papers, 8,566; parcels, 479. There are 101 miles of telephone line.

Statistics of West Indies.

Revenue

Exjicndituvc

1900-10

1910-11

1911-12

1909-10

£

1910-11

£

1911-12

£

£

£

£

Bahamas J .

77,578

84,391

85,693

92,858

85,314

82,676

Jamaica

1,104,317

1,176,167

1,356,092

1,173,242

1.135,095

1,350,551

Turks &Gaicos Islamls

7,748

8,646

8,318

(1,654

6,827

7,695

Windward Islands :—

St. Lucia .

65,740

65,066

71,979

64,446

67,288

69,329

St. Vincent

28,440

.30,125

34,852

31,331

30,343

33,735

Barbados .

195,803

213,298

221,906

199,625

211,949

215,697

Grenada .

71,224

81,413

98,645

73,282

75,528

81,012

Leeward Islands

149,670

164,390

174,818

149,406

159,263

158,924

Trinidad and Tobago .

858,565

948,383

950,744

863,254

927,034

959,551

Total .

2,614,085

2,771,864

3,002,947

2,654,098

2,698,674

2,959,170

1 Estimated Revenue, 1912-13, £89,106; Expenditure, £87,000.

Customs revenue (1911-12) :— Bahamas, 71,563/. ; Barbados, 131,683/.; Jamaica, 494,361/.; St. Lucia, 35,782/.; St. Vincent, 1.5,951/.; Turks and Caicos Islands. 5,660/.; Grenada, 46,221/. ; Leeward Islands, 102,247/.; Trinidad and Tobago, 464,425/.

In 1912 tlie Public Debt of Jamaica was 3,871,305/. ; of Bahamas, 96,720/. : of Barbados, 422,900/. ; of Trinidad and Tobago, 1,047,793/. ; of St. Lucia, 144,730/. ; of St. Vincent, nil (but municipal debts of 5,508/.); Grenada,

123,670/.; Leeward Islands, 267,050/.; Turks and Caicos Islands, nil.