Swaziland report / Commonwealth Relations Office.

  • Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth Relations.
Date:
[1959]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Swaziland report / Commonwealth Relations Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    comparable figures for 1958 and 1957. 1957 1958 1959 Motor Vehicles £ £ £ and Motor Spares 709,186 477,108 666,507 Groceries and Miscellaneous Foodstuffs 305,985 427,393 610,163 General Merchandise 740,736 616,034 585,671 Timber, Cement and other Building Materials 204,297 234,307 427,157 Sugar 123,371 105,206 198,694 Maize Meal 19,500 121,831 123.269 Agricultural Machinery and Implements 28,716 22,920 136,131 Petrol 99,692 101,300 131,757 Mining Stores 220,829 205,615 125,217 Cigarettes and Tobacco Beer and Spirituous 128,540 83,248 93,320 Beverages 55,704 72,120 83,732 Livestock 18,069 26,851 58,027 Fertilizer 66,501 78,836 85,000 Other Imports 495,192 738,566 651,819 3,216,318 3,311,335 3,976,464 In spite of a further decrease in value, the Territory’s exports of mineral products comprised 48% of the total value of all commodities exported. Chrysotile Asbestos exports were valued at £2,085,353 and comprised not only 99% of the total value of minerals exported, but 47 % of the total value of all exports. Sugar became the Territory’s second most important export in 1959? and together with increased values of cotton and tobacco exports was responsible for the substantial increase in agricultural products which made up 30% of the total value of exports in 1959 compared with 21% in 1958 and 18% in 1957. Whilst the value of livestock pro¬ ducts and forestry products indrea'sed, their position in relation to other products did not change in the pattern of the Territory’s exports in 1959. Ap¬ proximately one third of the Territory’s exports are sent directly to countries outside the South