Public Debt, 30th June, 1938, 3,093,7681. (not climate is healthy. The principal industries are The value of the imports in 1937 was Rs. 323,051 not including Rs. 25,000 Bullion and Specie. The exports of the island produce in 1937 were valued at Rs. 371,822. The people are all peasant proprietors and there is abundance of food. Communication with Rodrigues is maintained by steamers of the K.P.M. Line. Diego Garcia (population, 455, census 1931), the most important of the Oil Islands group, consists of four islands, at four days' steaming from Mauritius, the chief one being about 30 miles in length, extending in an irregular horseshoe shape, and embracing between its extremities three minor islets. It is a coral atoll, fifteen miles by six and a half, nowhere over ten feet high, but forming a spacious bay, roomy enough for large vessels to enter, being fifteen miles in length from end to end, and from two to five miles in breadth. Diego Garcia is situated at 7° 20′ latitude S. and 72° 26' longitude E., on the straight line between the entrance to the Red Sea and Cape Leeuwin. In 1885 it was placed under the jurisdiction of a magistrate, with a small force of police from Mauritius, which was, however, withdrawn in 1888. The population of the smaller Dependencies, according to the 1931 census, was 1,457 and is estimated at 1,411 on 31st December, 1937. 1930 1937-38, From Total. 1928 11,473,099 24,990,583 12,852,768 49,316,450 1929 11,100,987 21,520,23713,704,096 46,325,320 10,450,730 17,626,026 11,730,589 39,807,345 1931 7,504,119 15,006,377 9,553,578 32,064,074 1932 6,455,759 12,596,931 7,811,096 26,863,786 1933 9,421,478 11,049,089 8,487,775 28,958,342 1934 8,607,391 13,441,220 7,578,735 29,680,346* 1935 9,072,249 14,387,846 6,358,009 29,928,026 9,615,005 13,237,523 7,375,447 30,268,589 10,495,203 15,987,519 7,830,250 34,312,972 1936 * Including Baggage Rs. 40,614. Year. To U.K. EXPORTS, F.O.B.$ 1928 43,755,074 103,000 702,605 27,662,851 779,074 32,176,743 Including Bullion and Specie (Rs. 159,185) but excluding the value of Sugar Quota Certificates. tIncluding Bullion and Specie (Rs. 174,789) but excluding the value of Sugar Quota Certificates. Estimate, 1767, 19,000 Male. Female. Total. 190,027 71,109 57,303 53,578 110,881 1st Jan., 1938, (Estim- Calendar year. • Including Chinese. § Including 11,388 in the Dependencies. • General Elections were in January, 1936. MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Director, J. Balfour Kirk, Rs. 20,250. Deputy Director of Medical Services A. C. Labauve d'Arifat, Rs. 14,000 and house rent. Medical Officer of Health and Port Health Officer, Dr. L. M. J. R. Pilot, Rs. 9,500-12,000. Pathologist, H. D. Tonking, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Rs. 9,000-12,000 and quarters. Superintendent, Mental Hosptial, Dr. D. Dyson, Rs. 12,000. Of which Rs. 10,000 is drawn by the O.A.G. when Superintendent, Civil Hospital, Y. Cantin, the Governor is absent on full pay leave. Rs. 12,000. Superintendent, Victoria Hospital, Dr. L. R. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Procureur-General's Department. Procureur and Advocate General, C. A. Hooper, Rs. 18,000. Substitute Procureur and Advocate General, F. Herchenroder, Rs. 13,500. Additional Substitute Procureur and Advocate General (vacant), Rs. 11,000. Crown Attorney, C. Grégoire, Rs. 11,000. District and Stipendiary Magistracies. L. Ulcoq, M. Vigier de Latour, A. Legras, P .K. Vern, J. B. Colin, R. Espitalier Noel, Rs. 9,000-12,000; R. Brouard, R. Osman and L. Le Roy, Rs. 9,000. POLICE DEPARTMENT. Commissioner of Police and Superintendent of Prisons, R. Deane, O.B.E., Rs. 13,500. Deputy Commissioner, H. Coombes, Rs. 9,000. Director, G. E. Bodkin, Rs. 16,665 and quarters. Superintendents, E. E. César, H. C. F. Rodda, P. D. Geneticist, G. C. Stevenson, Rs. 6,300-250-7,800-400 9,000 and quarters. Senior Chemist, N. Craig, Rs. 10,000. Botanist, H. Evans, Rs. 9,000-500-10,000 and quarters. Senior Agricultural Officer and Instructor and Assistant Registrar Co-operative Credit-Societies, Assistant Entomologist, A. Moutia, Rs. 5,0006,000. Plant Pathologist and Lecturer in Plant Pathology, E. S. Shepherd, Rs. 6,300-250-7,800-400-9,000. Veterinary Officer, Dr. F. E. Lionnet, Rs. 7,5009,000. Assistant Chemist, R. Lincoln, Rs. 5,000-250-6,000. Sugar Technologist and Lecturer in Sugar DEPARTMENT OF FORESTS. Director, J. E. Carver, M.A. (Oxon.), Rs. 12,000. Assistant Director, H. C. King, B.A. (Oxon.), Rs. 7,000-9,000. MUSEUM AND PUBLIC LIBRARY. Librarian and Curator, R. E. Hart, Rs. 4,485. ROYAL ALFRED OBSERVATORY. JUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENT. Chief Judge, E. Nairac, Rs. 24,000. Puisne Judges, L. Leconte, and G. T. Watts, Rs. 15,000. Master and Registrar's Office and Curator Master and Registrar, G. Espitalier-Noël, Rs. 12,000. Julien, H. R. Old, L. S. Parke, C. A. Lavictoire, J. E. Guichard, Major J. P. Magrane, and M. T. Williams, Rs. 5,200-7,200, and quarters, or lodging allowances, and H. S. Rolfe, Rs. 6,000. Assistant Superintendents, G. Bagoban, A. E. Stafford, C. Mason, M. de Robillard, S. L. Lalanne, R. Venchard, M. Hitié and L. M. Maurice, Rs.2,6004,800, with quarters, or lodging allowance, and travelling allowance. Pay and Quarter Master, T. Lagaité, Rs. 4,000-5,000, and house rent. PRISONS DEPARTMENT. Superintendent of Prisons and Industrial School* Senior Chief Officer, H. Newlands, Rs. 5,000-250–6,000, and quarters. Junior Chief Officer, J. H. Beadles, Rs. 4,400-2005,000, and quarters. Assistant Chief Officers, W. Pyemont and W. McCormack, Rs. 3,400-150-4,000, and quarters. ECCLESIASTICAL. Church of England. Bishop of Mauritius, Right Rev. H. Otter-Barry, Rs. 10,000, and travelling allowance, Rs. 1,000. Archdeacon, H. Rolph, Rs. 4,500. Civil Chaplain and Sub-Dean, Port Louis, The Rev. W. J. H. Bankes, Civil Chaplain, Curepipe (vacant), (Bishop acting). Civil Chaplain, Vacoas, Rev. A. F. Rogers, Rs. 3,900. Civil Chaplain, Beau Bassin, Rev. J. H. Duff, Rs. 3,900; Rose Hill and Black River, Rev. E. E. Curtis, Rs. 3,900. Civil Chaplain, Moka and Quatre Bornes, Archdeacon, H. Rolph, Rs. 3,900. Roman Catholic Church. Bishop of Port Louis, The Rt. Rev. J. Leen, Rs. 10,000, and travelling allowance Rs. 1,000. Vicar-General, Rev. R. M. Lee, Rs. 3,900, and travelling allowance Rs. 500. 1st Class Priests at Rs. 2,600, Revds. J. P. O'Carroll, L. Fresia, J. Mamet, J. Fitzpatrick, M. Guerin, C. Streicher, A. Canning, P. Keenan, D. Casey, T. Eckert, M. de Boucherville, P. Bompard, J. Harmonic, E. Schnepp, D. Liston. Church of Scotland. Registrar in Bankruptcy and Chief Clerk, Minister and Chaplain, W. L. Levack, Rs. 5,200. L. Delafaye, Rs. 6,000. Curator Accountant, J. M. Rault, Rs. 7,500. • See Police Department. |