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

  • Great Britain. Colonial Office.
Date:
[1947]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report on the Falkland Islands and Dependencies / Colonial Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    10/38 (page 8)
    The legal tender is British coinage and local £5, £1 and 105. notes. The estimated value of coin in circulation on 31st December, 1946, was £6,000 and of notes £47,000. Chapter 5 : Commerce With the exception of meat and a limited quantity of garden produce, practically the whole of the Colony’s requirements in foodstuffs is imported. The value of imports and exports for 1947 as well as 1939, 1945 and 1946 are as follows : IMPORTS J939 1945 1946 1947 £ £ £ £ Food, Drink and Tobacco 32,472 48,648 55.4lS 80,298 Raw Materials 10,023 25,788 50,284 60,282 Mainly manufactured 40,656 88,625 110,419 98,060 Miscellaneous. 716 1,426 5.438 6,656 Bullion and Specie . — — — — Total Imports £83,867 £64.487 £221,559 £245,296 EXPORTS *939 *945 1946 *947 £ £ £ £ Wool .... I7M97 189,800 23 L700 238,550 Hidesand Skins 8,276 9,Ol6 14.175 12,821 Tallow .... 524 — I3>55° 5,775 Livestock 12,111 — — — Seal Oil.... 1,800 — — 900 Other Articles 1,090 4,762 34,488 7,050 Total Exports 99.998 £203.578 £293,9J3 £265,096 Re-exports £i,°9° £4.747 £34,488 £7,020 IMPORTS (PERCENTAGE) I939 *945 1946 I947 British Empire 69-45 51 53 53‘54 51 *35 Foreign Countries . 3°‘55 48-47 46-46 48-65