Annual report on the Falkland Islands and Dependencies / Colonial Office.

  • Great Britain. Colonial Office.
Date:
[1948]
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Credit: Annual report on the Falkland Islands and Dependencies / Colonial Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In South Shetland the pelagic development resulted in a rapid withdrawal of the fleet towards the end of the nineteen-twenties and to the complete abandonment of the field. Chapter 3 : Administration The Dependencies are subject to the same authority as the Colon}^ proper, that is to say, to the Governor and the Executive and Legisla¬ tive Councils, but Ordinances enacted in respect of the Colony do not run in the Dependencies unless they are specifically applied. An Administrative Officer, who is also Magistrate, and an official staff are maintained at South Georgia, and control over whaling operations in the other Dependencies is carried out by representatives of the Government, who accompany the expeditions as required. There is no local government in South Georgia ; in fact, there are no communities besides the whaling stations which are run by the managers on behalf of the several companies owning them. In the Dependencies other than South Georgia, there is a magis¬ trate at each of the posts maintained by the Falkland Islands Depend¬ encies Survey, who is one of the members of the survey party. A brief reference to the activities of the Argentinian and Chilean Governments in relation to the Dependencies is contained in para¬ graphs 34 and 187 of the Report entitled “ The Colonial Empire, 1947-1948,” presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Cmd. 7433). > Chapter 4: Weights and Measures Imperial and Norwegian weights and measures are in general use. Chapter 5 ; Bibliography “ Discovery ” Reports, 1929 . . . Cambridge University Press. Matthews, L. H. South Georgia. Bristol, John Wright and London, Simpkin Marshall, 1931. Printed in Great Britain under the authority of His Majesty’s Stationery Office by Bennett Brothers Ltd., Bristol Wt. 3213