'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1914-1915' [‎209r] (87/150)

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Chapter IV.
PRODUCTION
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Distribution.
Africa’s total was £1,328,070 and Asia comes next with a total of £852,120, the bulk of the
trade here being with Muscat, Red Sea and Arabian Gulf ports. The United States of
America has a total of £603,250 and Europe £485,480. The percentage of the United
Kingdom rose from g-86 to 12-06, of India from 17-76 to 21-07 an( d that of the British Empire
as a whole from 37'23 to 43. The percentage of continental Europe declined from 12-78
to 8-48. Austria exhibited by far the largest decrease in imports of sugar, piece-goods, etc.,
and in exports of hides chiefly. France and Germany were the next two countries showing
large decreases. The African percentage rose from 20-69 to 23-15, but the Asian fell from
18-23 to I4'87. The percentage of the United States of America also fell from 11-07
to 10-52.
5. The number of vessels, steam and sailing, entering the port during the year decreased Shipping,
from 1,529 to 1,204, and the tonnage from 3,925,044 to 3,058,771. The number of British
ships fell from 76710 698, and that of British Indian from 172 to 162. The number
of Italian ships rose from 84 to 80, but that of Austrian, French and German fell from
151, 117 and 180 to 49, 107 and 57, respectively. The number of native craft entering the
port fell from 1,460 to 1,277 and their tonnage from 43,095 to 37,125. The percentage of
the shipping interest of the United Kingdom in the trade of Aden increased from 13-74 to
15-78. The figures for India and Burma rose from 19-29 to 20-35, but British Colonial
interests fell from 21-84 to 2 °’93 anc b foreign interests from 45'13 to 42-94 per cent.
II.—Band Trade.
The number of camel-loads of produce imported into Aden from the mainland of Arabia
fell from 166,603 to 151,958 and the value of the produce decreased from £173,220 to
£137,610. The chief falls were under coffee, dyeing and tanning materials, grain, grass
and karhi, skins raw, provisions and treasure, while drugs and medicines, fruits and
vegetable fresh, hides raw jinjelli oil showed a rise. The total value of the exports
declined by £ 149,021 to £120,374. The chief falls were in cotton, twist and yarn and
piece-goods, rice and wheat flour, metals, kerosene oil, jinjelli seeds, spices, sugar and
treasure, and the chief rises in tobacco unmanufactured, jowdri 2cc\<k dates.
9.—Public Works.
For details see the Administration Report of the Public Works Department for the year 1914-15, and tables
under Irrigation printed in Part III of the Statistics of British India.
L—ADMINISTRATION.
In the last report it was stated that the formation of the Kolaba district was tentatively Territorial changes,
sanctioned by the Government of India for a period of two years from April 1913.
Experience showed that the separate district charge was really necessary and the Govern
ment of India were approached with a request to sanction the continuance of the district as
a permanent executive charge.
The Government of India sanctioned the continuance of the following three construction
districts in connection with the carrying out of the Nira Right Bank Canal Project for
further period of four years, viz., to the respective dates noted against each :—
1. Lake Whiting district ... ... Up to 8th November 1918.
2. Lonand district ... ... Up to 1 ith October 1918.
3. Malsiras district ... ... Up to 23rd September 1918. .
It was found that some of the Executive Engineers were notable to exercise in addition
to their other duties the close supervision which the work of gauging rivers demanded and
it was found that the results reported were not sufficiently reliable. As the calculations and
designs of the large irrigation projects are in a great measure dependent on the results of the
observations of these rivers, the accuracy of the records is of the greatest importance and the
formation of a new temporary sub-division called the River Gauge Sub-division was accord
ingly sanctioned for a period of two years in the first instance, with effect from the 1st June
1914. The sub-division embraces all the river gauges with the exception of those in the
Kanara district and Sind and is in charge of a sub-divisional officer working directly under
the orders of the Superintending Engineer, Deccan Irrigation Division.
Now that the Northern Hyderabad Canals District has been called “ Nasrat Canals,”
the official name of the other Public Works Department Irrigation charge in this region is
called the Hyderabad Canals District with the omission of the word “ Central.”
The following two temporary executive charges were sanctioned for the sanitary branch
of the Public Works Department for the preparation of projects and for the execution and
control of works in the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. proper :—
(1) The Southern Sanitary District having its head-quarters at Belgaum and
including the civil districts of Kolaba, Poona, Ahmednagar and all the civil districts
to the south of these ; and
(2) The Northern Sanitary District having its head-quarters at Ahmedabad and
including all the civil districts to the north of (1).
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