Animals, Live £71,771 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 £31,595,332 =========== The purely British (_i.e._ the United Kingdom's) share in this trade was as follows: Animals, Living £29,306 Arms, Ammunition, &c. 143,697 Articles of Food and Drink 2,533,163 Articles of Personal Use 3,528,907 Builders' Materials, &c. 175,078 Drugs and Chemicals 423,190 Household Requisites 1,600,763 Ironmongery and Hardware 275,245 Leather and Manufactures 1,762,438 Machinery, Millwork, &c. 1,210,151 Metals and Manufactures 1,762,438 Oils, other than Essential 55,076 Paper and Stationery 577,228 Textile Manufactures 2,387,666 Vehicles and Parts 635,153 Vessels (Ships and Boats) 23,214 Wood and Timber 108,034 Miscellaneous Articles 965,655 ----------- Total £20,648,529 It is not without instruction to those who are unaware of the potential character of South Africa's buying capacity, the reasons for which will be more clearly set forth later on, to compare the amount spent on the purchase of oversea goods by the white and black population with those of our other colonies and India:--