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Annual Report of the Colonies, Gold Coast, 1902 OOFvOMAL REPORTS—ANN UAL J./0 No. 307. GOLD COAST. REPORT FOR 1902. (For Report for 1901, see No. 375.) Pcwentrt to botf> gouges of parliament 6s Command of His USafeiBtp. September, 1903. LONDON: PRINTED FOR HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE, Bx DARLING k SON, LTD., 8440, BAOO* STBBIT, E. And to be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE, EAST HABDING STEBET, FLEET STBEBT, E.O., and 82, Asnrenox STBKRT, WBSTMINSTEB, S.W.; or OUTER & BOYD, EDWHUMH; or E. PONSONBY, 116, QBAJTTON STBMT, DUBLIN 1903. •) ft<y o " 3 i- > * [Cd« 1768-2.1 Price M. 5 A tf COLONIAL REPORTS. The following, among other, reports relating to Hie Majesty's Colonial Possessions have been issued, and may be obtained from the sources indicated on the title page:— ANNUAL. No. Colony. Year. 376 Gold Coast ••• ••• • •• • •• • •# 1901 376 Grenada ••<« ... » . ... • •• w 377 Northern Nigeria ••• ••• »• • ... tt 378 British tiuiana ... ... it» • • » • •• *>•• 1901-1902 379 Mauritius » ..» ... ... • •• 1901 380 Basutoland • • • .»• ... • '• • • •« 1901-1902 ML Southern Nigeria • •• • •• • •• 1901 382 Trinidad and Tobago ••• ... • » • »• • 1901-1902 383 Bermuda • •• •• • • • • • • • 1902 384 St. Luoia . • • • * • • •• • •• »*. 1901 385 St. Vincent * * * * • • • •• •*• • •• 386 Falkland Islands ... ... ••' • »•• ... 1902 . 387 Gibraltar . .. ... • •• • *• • • • 388 Weihaiwei • * . ... • •• ... • • • » 380 Sierra Leone ... ... ... »»• • •• 390 British Honduras ... ... f ... .. »•• » 391 Gambia ... ... *•• • • • *** • •• 11 392 St. Helena ... ... ... ... «•« »* 393 Hong Kong ... ... ... ... • •• »» 394 Turks and Caicos Islands * • • ... ... it 395 {Seychelles ... a . • ... ... ... ... 396 Ceylon ... ... ... • » • • »• it MISCELLANEOUS. Gjld Coast ... ... Economic Agriculture. Zululand ... Forests. Sierra Leone ... Geology and Botany. Canada ... Emigration. Bahamas ... ... Sisal Industry. Hone Kong ... ... Bubonic Plague Newfoundland ... Mineral Resources. ... ... British Solomon Islands. Western Pacific ..'. ... Dominica ... Agriculture. Virgin Islands ... Condition during 1897. ... ... Agriculture in Carriaoou. Grenada ... ... ... Anguilla • •» Vital Statistics, 1898. Cook Islands ... ... Trade, 1899. ... ... Fibre Industry. Bahamas ... ... Canada ' ... Legal Status of British North American Indians. Miscellaneous Colonies Medical Reports. Gilbert and Ellice Islands Report for 1896-1900. Hong Kong ... ... Operations in New Territory during 1900. Miscellaneous Colonies Medical Reports, Weihaiwei ... ... General Report. Dominica ... Report on Caribs. Seychelles Report on Para Rubber. Dominica Roads and Land Settlement. COLONIAL RBFORTS—ANNUAL. 3 0 No. 897. GOLD COAST. (For Report for 1901, m No. 875.) GOVERNOR SIR M. NATHAN to MR. CHAMBERXAIX. * Christiansborg Castle, 17th August, 1903. (Extract.) SIR, I HAVE the honour to transmit herewith a Report ou the Blue Book for the Gold Coast for the year 1902. In the absence of (the Colonial Secretary and of the Chief Assistant Colonial Secretary, both on sick leave, and of the senior of the two Assistant Colonial Secretaries on leave, the report has been prepared under my supervision by Captain C. H. Armitege, 'Commissioner of the Southern District of Ashanti, whom I stopped here on his way from England for this purpose as well as to assist in the general work of the Secretariat. The report is based as much on the 19 Departmental Reports, of which the last was sent to you in my despatch dated the 25th July, 1903, as on the Blue 'Book itself, which is now in the press! As you have approved of these reports bedng placed on sale to the public, detailed information oil the various matters briefly treated in the Report on the Blue Book will be available to the large and increasing number of persons in England who desire *o inform themselves on questions relating to this Colony. Referring to the third paragraph of your despatch of the 24th April, 1903, in which you enquire whether there is any insuperable difficulty in the way of getting *he Blue Book completed during ,tbe first quarter of the year succeeding that to which i* relates, I regret to have to inform you that I can hold ou* no prospect of this being done. No. 268 of the Rules 875 Wt 21109 10/1908 D&S b' 16029 A 2 4 COLONIAL BBPOBTS-—AN tJAL. and Regulations for His Majesty's Colonial Service lays down that the various returns comprised in the Blue Book must be filled up with Jthe greatest possible accuracy and that the statistical tables must be full and complete* This would obviously be impossible with regard to the most important item of finance if the Book were prepared before the accounts of the Colony were finallv closed for the year. For this final closing it is necessary to await the accounts from Ashanti and the Northern Territories where there are stations many days' journey from the respective headquarters, with which commu­ nication is sometimes difficult and always slow. I am Satisfied that even if no occasion arises for references back to these out- stations from headquarters it is not possible to get the December accounts of Ashanti at Accra till early in March, and of the Northern Territories till well on in April. This year the last instalments ocf the accounts for 1902 were not received from Ashanti and the Northern Territories until the 8th of April, and the 16th of May, respectively. When the accounts are received there is much work to be done in checking the <* numerous vouchers, and in abstracting the charges tc the various votes and subheads of the Estimates before the'books can be closed lor the year, balanced, and the annual. ^iatement of accounts made up. I have considered the suggestion that was made some time ago of having separate Blue Books for Ashanti and the Northern Territories, which would involve separate systems of accounts for that Colony and that Protectorate. I do not think, however, that this would result in such earlier transmission of the Blue Book for the Gold Coast proper as would justify the considerable additional staff that would be required. I fear that-until communications improve, as they will do in time with the development of the territories under this administration, the responsibility of the Colonial Secretary under No. 289 of the Rules and Regulations is one that it is impossible for him to discharge. With regard to paragraph 4 of your despatch above quoted* it would be possible if approximate figures with reference to the financial position of the Colony only were given for the Report on the Blue Book to appear one or two w>ntjis before the actual Blue Book. But I should be fearful, if this were done, of there being grave discrepancies between the financial statements appearing in the two, discrepancies which would certainly receive ample public recognition. Something may be done at any rate in the way of expediting those Departmental Reports and those parts of the Report on the Blue Book which do not depend on annual statistics in th« direction suggested in the fifth paragraph of your despatch by the making of notes front time to time during the year, and I will take steps to give effect to this suggestion. As the Blue GOLD OOAStf, 1001 5* Book consists mainly of statistics for tfce whole year and the report on it largely oil deductions from these statistics, I fear, however, that the notes of the officers made during the year will not be of much value to them, or in their absence at the end of the year to the officers acting for them, in compiling their reports when the time comes for submitting them. In this connection it must be borne in mind that the conditions in this Colony are subject to considerable and somewhat rapid changes with the state of the 1$est African mining market, and that it is in the last three months of the year, corresponding to the first part of the tflry or best working season, that these changes generally occur. On the whole I recommend that the preparation of the Blue Book and Report on it be allowed to wait as at present the closing of the Treasury books at the end of the financial year. * * » t * * I trust that the report for 1902 now submitted, to which Captain Armitage has given much care and work, will meet with your approval. It possibly contains more detailed figures than are essential, but represents on the whole an accurate, fairly complete, and fair, history of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, and the Northern Territories, for the year to which it relates. I have, &c., M. NATHAN, Governor* 6 COLONIAL BBPOBT8—ANNUAL. / REPORT ON THE BLUE BOOK OF THE GOLD COAST FOR THE YEAR 1902. I.—FINANCIAL. (A.) GENERAL REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE. 1. The following table shows the Revenue of <tihe Colony fot 1902, compared with that for 1901: — Heads of Revenue. Collected in Collected ib Increase. Decrease. 1901. 1902. £ t. d. £ 9. d, £ 8. d. £ #. d. 1. Oastoms 850,910 16 4 882,610 19 7 81,594 8 8 2. Light dues ... 1,476 2 0 1,882 10 0 856 8 0 8, Licenses, Excise, &c.... 20,088 11 2 20,084 6 6 50 15 4 4. Fees of Court or office, 68,610 16 8 47,747 16 11 10,762 18 4 • 5* Post office ... ... 754 10 5 816 9 7 61 19 2 6. Rents of Government 46 6 0 684 17 6 698 12 6 property. 7. Interest . 717 1 6 4,888 4 0 8. Miscellaneous ... 12,895 18 8 6,141 19 0 8,671 2 6 6,258 19 8 9. Revenue from Ashanti 18,888 0 9 15,691 8 11 8,246 11 10 10; Revenue from North­ 7,824 12 4 9,327 17 6 ern territories. 2,003 5 2 471,012 18 0 489,086 9 6 88,836 5 11 20,268 19 6 Land sales 180 10 0 2,669 0 0 2,488 10 0 471,193 8 0 491,764 9 6 40,824 15 11 20,263 19 5 Imperial Grants:— (a.) Northern Territories 26,000 0 0 19,748 6 8 6,251 13 9 (5.) Ashanti disturbances 197,700 0 0 197,700 0 0 093,893 3 0 511,502 15 9 40,8$4 15 11 223,215 3 2 2.
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