Annual report on North Borneo / Colonial Office.

  • Great Britain. Colonial Office.
Date:
[1949]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report on North Borneo / Colonial Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OCCUPATIONS, WAGES I Rice and other foodstuffs AND LABOUR II Clothing and Bedding ORGANISATION III Miscella¬ neous i5 Total Javanese $ % $ $ Sandakan . 20.40 5-49 6.63! 32-521 Lahad Datu 20.16J 7.8l 6-5°! 34-48 Tawau 19.46 5-24 6-45 31-15 Jesselton . 20.07 4-8iJ 6.77-1 3:-66 Kudat 20.43 6.87 6.8l 34-11 Papar 17.62 5-7°! 6.36J 29.69 Kota Belud 12.46 4.67 6.80 23-93 Beaufort . 20.82 10.68 8.86J 4°-36! Tenom 18.63 5-74 6-7S 3UI2 Labuan • 23.59 6.16 6.87 36.62 Average 19.36 6.31 7.08 32.75 Natives Sandakan . • 22.53J 4-54 4.96 32.03! Lahad Datu • 21.47-1 5-10! 2.95 29-53 Tawau • 21.59 3-71 4*35 29.65 Jesselton . 21.13 3-49i 4.80 29.42^ Kudat 22.30 3.80 6.86 32.96 Papar • 17-78 4.01 4-33 26.12 Kota Belud *3-97 2.67 3-i7 19.81 Beaufort . 22.20 6.l6 4.02 32.38 Tenom 20.87 5.02 5-33 3 1 *22 Labuan 24.25 4.09 4-75 33-°9 Average 20.81 4.26 4-55 29.62 Note: These figures are exclusive of rent and firewood, and have not been weighted in accordance with the populations of the places concerned. Prices of the principal local foodstuffs varied 31st December, 1948 and 31st December, 1949: as follows between !948 *949 Commodity % $ Rice, per gantang (8 lb.) .... 2.20 2.00 Sweet Potatoes, per kati (1^- lb.) .10 .08 Fowls, per kati ...... I.70 1.50 Eggs, each ....... •J5 •O Beef, per kati ...... .80 •65 Pork, „ „ .. 1.40 1.12 Fresh Fish, per kati ..... .80 .80 Salt Fish, ,, ,, .70 .80 Sugar, „ „. .40 .40 Coffee, ,, ,, . -85 1.20 Coconut Oil,, ,, •5° •55 3*