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Title: South Africa and the Transvaal war
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Creswicke, Louis
Subjects: South African War, 1899-1902 Transvaal (South Africa) -- History
Publisher: Edinburgh : T. C. & E. C. Jack
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ch,and the general disinclination of the Trades Unions to adoptmodern labour-saving machinery, being the two principal factorsin determining whether competition with other countries shall beeffective or not. It may not be without interest to put on record the values ofthe principal articles imported into South Africa in 1901 from allsources. They were as follow :— Animals, Live .... ^7i>77i Articles of Food and Drink . 9,641.809 Articles of Personal Use 6,120,903 Builders Materials 1,245,609 Drugs and Chemicals 437.610 Electrical Goods .... 136.964 Explosives and Weapons 119.379 Hardware, Cutlery, and Ironmongery 1,276,041 Household Requisites . 1,969,724 Iron and Steel .... 596,928 Leather and Manufactures 394,525 Machinery, &:c. ..... 859,685 Paper, Books, &:c. 689,216 Textile Manufactures 2,104,245 Vehicles and Vehicular Material . 968,210 Other Articles .... 1,943,465 Goods by Parcels Post .... 520.265 Stores for Government .... 2,498,983 Total • ;^3i,>95,332 176
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a:o H .r W = a -5 a. I H I ;.T -. . the United Kingdoms) share in this tradewas as follows : Animals, LivingArms, Ammunition, dszc.Articles of Food and DrinkArticles of Personal UseBuilders Materials, &c.Drugs and Chemicals .Household Requisites .Ironmongery and HardwareLeather and ManufacturesMachinery, Millwork, &c.Metals and ManufacturesOils, other than EssentialPaper and StationeryTextile ManufacturesVehicles and PartsVessels (Ships and Boats)Wood and TimberMiscellaneous Articles . Total ^-9.306 143,6972,533-163 3,52«,907175,078423,190 1,600,763 275.245 1,762.438 1,21 o, 151 1,762,438 55.076 577,2282,3«7.666 635.153 23.214 108,034 965,655^^20,648,529 It is not without instruction to those who are unaware of thepotential character of South Africas buying capacity, the reasonsfor which will be more clearly set forth later on, to compare theamount spent on the purchase of oversea goods

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