HONG KONG ANNUAL
ADMINISTRATION
REPORTS
1841-1941
VOLUME 1: 1841-1886
R.L. Jarman
ARCHIVE EDITIONS
1996
HONG KONG
ANNUAL
ADMINISTRATION
REPORTS
1841-1941
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HONG KONG
ANNUAL
ADMINISTRATION
REPORTS
1841-1941
VOLUME 1: 1841-1886
Edited by R.L. Jarman
ARCHIVE
1996
EDITIONS
Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841–1941
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Introduction
This collection of administration and other reports covers the first 100 years of British rule in Hong Kong. On 26th January 1841 Hong Kong was occupied by British forces; two days after this initial occupation, on 28th January 1841, a Royal Proclamation placed the civil administration in the hands of Captain Elliot, then Chief Superintendent of Trade of British Subjects in China. Captian Elliot was succeeded in his post as Chief Superintendent by Sir Henry Pottinger on 11th August 1841. A year later, on 29th August 1842, the British occupation of Hong Kong was recognised and confirmed in the Treaty of Nanking. The final stage of this takeover took place on 26th June 1843 when Hong Kong was proclaimed a Crown Colony and Sir Henry Pottinger became its first governor.
There are no annual reports for these earliest years of the British presence in Hong Kong; but there are details of the income and expenditure of the fledgling administration which were presented to the British Parliament. In addition, there is the Report presented by the Colony's Treasurer, Mr Martin, (together with the consequent correspondence) which describes the administration of the area at this time.
It naturally took time for the whole apparatus of colonial government to be developed in Hong Kong and for the standard reporting back to London to be established. Foremost among the reports that had to be sent back to London was the annual Blue Book: the collection of all available statistics of
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the colony, including details of all income and expenditure (even including salaries paid to various office holders), and with this Blue Book was sent the Governor's report summarising the events of the year. Whether the report was written by the Governor himself or by the Chief Secretary with merely a covering letter by the Governor depended on the character of the two men. The writing of this annual report on the Blue Book was obviously popular task, as illustrated in two despatches of June 1847 - strangely enough by Sir Henry Pottinger (the first Governor of Hong Kong) and his colonial secretary - but from the Cape of Good Hope, Pottinger's next posting after Hong Kong: in his despatch no. 72 of 7th June 1847 forwarding the Blue Book of the Cape of Good Hope, Pottinger
wrote:
'In obedience to the instructions contained in paragraph 1, section 4, chapter 7, page 59 of the Compendium of Rules and Regulations for HM's Colonial Service, I transmit the Blue Book with the Colonial Secretary's Report thereon'.
However, the report of John Montagu, the colonial Secretary, began with these words:
'Your Excellency is no doubt aware that it forms one of the duties of the Governor of the Colony to draw up annually a General report on the state and prospects of the several territories under his administration, which is transmitted with the Blue Book of the year. In the present instance, this duty has devolved upon me.'
Sir Henry Pottinger had left Hong Kong before the first Hong Kong Blue Book and Report had been written - they were sent in May 1845, for the year 1844; perhaps because it was the first Blue Book to be compiled for Hong Kong, there does not seem to have been an unwillingness of either Governor or Colonial Secretary to write the accompanying report and both men wrote separate lengthy reports on it.
The obligation to write these reports continued unchanged right up to 1939 and the beginning of the Second World War, when it was decided that colonies need no longer submit them. The only exception was Palestine and other mandated territories where it was thought that the British Government had an obligation to the League of Nations to write such administration reports, even though they could not be presented - but even there, reports were not actually written after 1941.
The nomenclature of the Hong Kong report, however, did change from time to time. Until 1889 it was called ‘Annual Report on the Blue Book'. From 1890 to 1930 it was called simply ‘Annual Report on Hong Kong', but there was no change in content between the 1889 report with the old title and the 1890 report with the new title, although as time went on changes in style and arrangement did gradually develop. From 1931 to 1939 the title was 'Annual Report on the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong'.
Some of the reports were never published and these are reproduced in these volumes for the first time ever. The rest were published, although the
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method of publishing them changed over the years. Until 1886, each colony's report was not published individually but as part of one omnibus report presented to the British Parliament entitled 'Reports exhibiting the past and present state of Her Majesty's colonial possessions'; from 1887 onwards each colony's report became a separate publication. The actual publisher of the reports changed, too. From the beginning until 1919, Parliament itself published these reports as Command Papers; from 1920 onwards the Colonial Office published them through the agency of His Majesty's Stationery Office.
The arrangement and division of the volumes in this publication reflects and illustrates the changes in title, method of publication, and type of report. The arrangement is as follows:
Volume 1 contains the early reports from 1841-1844 before the system of annual reports was started; it also contains all the reports from 1844 to 1886, during which period the reports were published as one section of the omnibus report containing 'Reports exhibiting the past and present state of Her Majesty's colonial possessions'.
Volume 2 contains the reports from 1887 to 1903, during which period each colony's report was published as a separate publication and not as one section of a compendium report. As mentioned above, the title changed with the 1890 report but the form of the contents remained the
same.
Volume 3 contains the reports from 1903 to 1919, and the reports in this period are similar in form, title and publisher to those from 1890 to 1903 contained in volume 2.
Volume 4 contains the reports from 1920 to 1930, during which period the form and title were the same as for the years 1890 to 1919, but the publisher changed from the House of Commons to the Colonial Office through the agency of HMSO.
Volume 5 contains the reports from 1931 to 1939, during which period the form (for all) and the publisher (up to 1938) were the same as for the period 1920 to 1930 but the title was changed to 'Annual Report on the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong'.
Volume 6: No composite annual report was written for 1940/41 or 1941/2 but we do have department annual reports and financial estimates, and these have been reproduced. At the end of this period, the worsening of the war situation prevented for the time being the preparation of any more reports.
Above is a general outline of the nature of the reports and contents of these volumes. Below are more detailed notes on each period of reports, on which reports were published and which were not published, on which reports were not written and the despatch that is to be taken as a substitute for the annual report, and on the location and reference of every single document used.
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1841-1844
No annual reports were written during this period, but we do have details of the financial statements covering these years. And we also have the report written by Treasurer Martin and consequent correspondence which describes the administration of Hong Kong from the beginning. We have given the references for these reports: the prefix HoC means that these files can be found in the published Papers of the House of Commons and can be seen at any of the copyright libraries in the United Kingdom (we have used the copies in the Cambridge University Library, but the references would be the same for any of the libraries).
The references for these early financial reports are as follows:
May 1841 to June 1843
July 1843 to March 1844
Hoc: 1846 vol. xxvii
HoC: 1846 vol. xxvii
The references for the Martin Report and subsequent correspondence are as follows:
Despatch (of 20/Aug/1844) from
Governor Davis to Lord Stanley,
enclosing report by Treasurer Martin of 24/Jul/1844
Despatch (no.66 of 17/Dec/1844) from
Lord Stanley to Governor Davis Despatch (no.44 of 25/Apr/1845) from
Governor Davis to Lord Stanley Despatch (of 25/Mar/1845) from Lord
Stanley to Governor Davis, enclosing a further report by Martin of 20/Nov/1844
HoC: 1857 sess 1 vol. xii
HoC: 1857 sess 1 vol. xii
HoC: 1857 sess 1 vol. xii
HoC: 1847 vol. xl
Despatch (no.85 of 24/Jun/1845) from Governor Davis to Lord Stanley
HoC: 1847 vol. xl
1844-1886
1844 saw the first Blue Book for the colony of Hong Kong, together with a report on its contents by the Colonial Secretary and further comments by the Governor in his covering letter. The Blue Book, the report and the Governor's comments were sent to London on 3rd May 1845 – they were in manuscript form and were not published; to this day, they have never been published and can be found only in the files of the Colonial Office at the Public Record Office outside London.
The following year's report was published, however, by the British Parliament as one of the reports in its series 'Reports exhibiting the past and present state of Her Majesty's colonial possessions'. This annual series comprised one omnibus report consisting of the annual reports on the Blue
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Books of many colonies, often all those in a particular geographical area; the fact that each colony's report is an extract of the omnibus report accounts for the layout. This series ('Reports exhibiting the past and present state of Her Majesty's colonial possessions') continued until 1886. All the Hong Kong Reports from 1845 to 1886 that were written were published in this series of omnibus reports, with the exception of the 1884 report which, although printed in Hong Kong and sent to London, seems to have been overlooked by the compilers of the Parliamentary report; it can, however, be found in the files of the Colonial Office.
The 1870s were an exasperating time for the Colonial Office in London, as several Hong Kong reports were not written at all, especially during the governorship of Sir James Pope-Hennessy. The reports for 1871 and 1876- 1878 were not written, although the report for 1879/1880 (sent in April 1881) did try to remedy some of the damage by including a survey of the previous years. In 1871 the frustration of the Colonial Office officials was obvious in their internal minutes (included in this publication) as well as their decision to have 'nil return' entered in the omnibus report published by Parliament; but the years 1876 to 1878 are merely a blank in the Parliamentary record. Instead of an annual report, we have included the despatch from the Governor to the Colonial Office giving the financial estimates for the forthcoming year.
Below are the references for the published and unpublished reports (together with the date and number of the original despatch that sent the report to London) and the despatches that substituted for the annual report. All references preceeded by PRO mean that these files can be found at the Public Record Office in the United Kingdom; as with the period 1841 to 1843, the prefix HoC means that these files can be found in the published Papers of the House of Commons and can be seen at any of the copyright libraries in the United Kingdom.
Published Reports
Extracted from 'Reports exhibiting the past and present state of Her Majesty's colonial possessions' published by the House of Commons.
1844
1845 (despatch 37 of 11/Apr/1846) 1846 (despatch 31 of 13/Mar/1847)
HoC: 1846 vol. xxix (pp. 723-727) HoC: 1847 vol. xxxvii (pp. 461-469)
1847 (despatch 31 of 26/Feb/1848) HoC: 1847-8: vol. xlvi
(pp. 316–319)
1848 (despatch 25 of 12/Mar/1849) HoC: 1849 vol. xxxiv
(pp. 517-541)
1849 (despatch 25 of 2/Apr/1850)
HoC: 1850 vol. xxxvi (pp. 147-171)
1850 (despatch 30 of 26/Apr/1851) HoC: 1851 vol. xxxiv
(pp. 415–429)
1851 (despatch 17 of 14/Mar/1852) HoC: 1852 vol. xxxi (pp. 281–297)
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1852 (Despatch 44 of 13/Jun/1853) HoC: 1852–3 vol. Ixii
1853 (despatch 33 of 7/Apr/1854)
1854 (despatch 79 of 9/Jun/1855) 1855 (despatch 82 of 24/May/1856)
(pp. 340-357)
HoC: 1854-5 vol. xxxvi
(pp. 342-358)
HoC: 1856 vol. xlii (pp. 310–321) HoC: 1857 vol. x (pp. 375–380)
1856 (despatch 125 of 11/Aug/1857) HoC: 1857–8 vol. xl
1857 (despatch of 25/Mar/1858)
1858 (despatch 54 of 29/Mar/1859) 1859 (despatch 86 of 3/Jul/1860) 1860 (despatch 85 of 5/Jun/1861)
(pp. 355-358)
HoC: 1859 sess. 2 vol. xxi
(pp. 618-627)
HoC: 1860 vol. xliv (pp. 251–267) HoC: 1861 vol. xl (pp. 283–286) HoC: 1862 vol. xxxvi (pp. 270-275)
1861 (despatch 113 of 5/Jun/1862) HoC: 1863 vol. xxxix
1862 (despatch 127 of 1/Jul/1863) 1863 (despatch 110 of 26/Jul/1864)
1864 (despatch 62 of 23/May/1865) 1865 (despatch 125 of 15/Sep/1966)
(pp. 247-251)
HoC: 1864 vol. xl (pp. 293–298) HoC: 1865 vol. xxxvii (pp. 277–279)
HỌC: 1866 vol. xlix (pp. 549–553) HoC: 1867 vol. xlviii (pp. 254–256)
1866 (despatch 384 of 29/Oct/1867) HoC: 1867–8 vol. xlviii
1867 (despatch 584 of 5/Oct/1868) 1868 (despatch 838 of 28/Dec/1869) 1869 (despatch 72 of 14/Sep/1870) 1870 (despatch 79 of 8/Jun/1871) 1871 'nil return'
1872 (despatch of 15/Jul/1873) 1873 (despatch of 10/Sep/1874) 1874 (despatch of 14/Jun/1875) 1875 (despatch of 24/Aug/1876) 1876
(pp. 283-302)
HoC: 1868–9 vol. xliii (p. 295) HoC: 1870 vol. xlix (pp. 269–275) HoC: 1871 vol. xlvii (pp. 243–267) HoC: 1872 vol. xlii (pp. 186–220) HoC: 1873 vol. xlviii (p. 578) HoC: 1874 vol. xliv (pp. 166–170) HoC: 1875 vol. li (pp. 136-140) HoC: 1875 vol.li (pp. 585-590) HoC: 1876 vol. li (pp. 343–366)
1877 1878
1879-80 (despatch of 29/Apr/1881) 1889 (despatch of 8/Feb/1882) 1881 (despatch of 25/Sep/1882) 1882 (despatch of 18/Jul/1883) 1883 (despatch of 16/Jul/1884) 1884
1885 (despatch of 16/Apr/1886) 1886 (despatch of 2/May/1887)
Unpublished Reports
HoC: 1881 vol. Ixiv (pp. 541–571) HoC: 1882 vol. xliv (pp. 272-287) HoC: 1883 vol. xlv (pp. 240–247) HoC: 1883 vol. xlv (pp. 290–293) HoC: 1884 vol. liv (pp. 552-561)
HoC: 1886 vol. xlv (pp. 324-341) HoC: 1887 vol. lvii (pp. 538–553)
To be found in the files of the Colonial Office at the Public Record Office at
Kew in the United Kingdom.
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1844 (despatch 53 of 3/May/1845)
PRO: CO 129/12
1884 (no despatch found)
PRO: CO 133/41
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To be found in the files of the Colonial Office at the Public Record Office at Kew in the United Kingdom.
1871 (despatch 139 of 13/Nov/1872 + CO minutes) PRO: CO 129/159
1876 (despatch 133 of 11/Oct/1875 + enclosures) 1877 (despatch 200 of 21/Nov/1876 + enclosures) 1878 (despatch 167 of 29/Nov/1877 + enclosures)
PRO: CO 129/171
PRO: CO 129/175 PRO: CO 129/179
1887-1889
From 1886 onwards, Parliament ceased its previous practice of printing all the colonial Reports on Blue Books together in one omnibus report entitled 'Reports exhibiting the past and present state of Her Majesty's colonial possessions'. Henceforth, each colony's annual report on the Blue Book was published as a separate publication in a new series entitled 'Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions: no. ... [name of Colony]'; the first one in this new series was the 1886 report for the Virgin Islands: the first report for Hong Kong was that for 1887 and was number 33 in the new series.
All the reports for 1887 to 1889 were published and the references are below. In 1888, there were two reports: an initial report and then a further report. All these reports were still described as the ‘Annual Report on the Blue Book'.
1887 'HM Colonial Possessions: no.33'
1888 'HM Colonial Possessions: no.77'
1888 'HM Colonial Possessions: no.84'
1889 'HM Colonial Possessions: no. 117'
HoC: 1888 vol. lxxii (page. 371-388) HoC: 1890 vol. xlviii (pp. 477-496)
HoC: 1980 vol. xlviii (pp. 497-524) HoC: 1890–1 vol. Iv (pp. 83-90)
1890-1930
The series of printed individual reports that Parliament began in 1886 had a very short existence with its title 'Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions: no. [name of colony]'. The concept of each colony's report being a separate publication remained, but the title was changed to 'Colonial Reports Annual: no. [name of colony]'. From 1890 until 1919 these reports under the new title were published as Command Papers of the House of Commons, as previously; but from 1920 onwards the publication was taken over by His Majesty's Stationery Office - the numbering of the
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reports, however, continued in an uninterrupted series.
From 1890 onwards, each report was described merely as the Annual Report rather than as the Annual Report on the Blue Book, but there was no change in the content.
In addition to these reports, we are including in this collection various other reports: firstly, the initial reports on the administration of the New Territories from 1898 to 1900, which were kept separate from the main administration report of the colony; and secondly, a summary for the years 1841 to 1930 published by the Hong Kong government.
Published Reports
Below are the references for the published annual reports. From 1890 to 1919 the reports were published by the House of Commons, as denoted by the prefix HoC in the reference. From 1920 onwards, the reports were published by HMSO – the references given here (denoted by the prefix CUL) are the references in the Official Publications Room at Cambridge University Library, whose copies we have used for this collection; these references would not apply to copies located in other copyright libraries. Reports for every year were published, with the exception of the report for 1891.
1890 Colonial Reports-Annual: 29 1891
1892 Colonial Reports-Annual: 85
1893 Colonial Reports-Annual: 107 1894 Colonial Reports-Annual: 148 1895 Colonial Reports-Annual: 178 1896 Colonial Reports-Annual: 210
1897 Colonial Reports-Annual: 245 1898 Colonial Reports-Annual: 282 1899 Colonial Reports-Annual: 314 1900 Colonial Reports-Annual: 340 1901 Colonial Reports-Annual: 369 1902 Colonial Reports-Annual: 393
1903 Colonial Reports-Annual: 421 1904 Colonial Reports-Annual: 451 1905 Colonial Reports-Annual: 485
HoC: 1892 vol. lv (pp. 353–370)
HoC: 1893–4 vol. lix (pp. 543-554)
HoC: 1894 vol. Ivi (pp. 99–108) HoC: 1896 vol. lvii (pp. 361-380) HoC: 1897 vol. lix (pp. 323–335) HoC: 1898 vol. lix (pp. 597–611)
HoC: 1899 vol. Ixi (pp. 851–858) HoC: 1900 vol. liv (pp. 487–519) HoC: 1901 vol. xlv (pp. 329–372) HoC: 1902 vol. lxv (pp. 1–22) HoC: 1902 vol. lxv (pp. 25–48) HoC: 1903 vol. xliii (pp. 251-272)
HoC: 1904 vol. Ivi (pp. 467–489) HoC: 1905 vol.li (pp. 585-607) HoC: 1906 vol. lxxiv (pp. 285-309)
1906 Colonial Reports-Annual: 521 HoC: 1907 vol. liii
(pp. 649-677)
1907 Colonial Reports-Annual: 570 HoC: 1908 vol. lxviii
(pp. 937-961)
1908 Colonial Reports-Annual: 617 1909 Colonial Reports-Annual: 659
HoC: 1909 vol. lvii (pp. 501–527) HoC: 1910 vol. Ixiv (pp.549-579)
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1910 Colonial Reports-Annual: 691 1911 Colonial Reports-Annual: 723
1912 Colonial Reports-Annual: 762 1913 Colonial Reports-Annual: 814
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HoC: 1911 vol. li (pp. 421–445) HoC: 1912–13 vol. lvii (pp. 725–753)
HoC: 1914 vol. lviii (pp. 23–55) HoC: 1914–16 vol. xliii (pp. 851-883)
1914 Colonial Reports-Annual: 856 HoC: 1914–16 vol. xliii
1915 Colonial Reports-Annual: 892 1916 Colonial Reports-Annual: 923
(pp. 885-919)
HoC: 1916 vol. xix (pp. 397–421) HoC: 1917–18 vol. xxii (pp. 363-386)
1917 Colonial Reports-Annual: 972 HoC: 1918 vol. xvii
(pp. 207-227)
1918 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1001 HoC: 1919 vol. xxxv
(pp. 451-473)
1919 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1071 HoC: 1921 vol. xxiv
(pp. 213-235)
1920 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1108 CUL: OP.3100.11.019 (1) 1921 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1139 CUL: OP.3100.11.019 (2) 1922 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1203 CUL: OP.3100.11.019 (3) 1923 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1228 CUL: OP.3100.11.019 (4) 1924 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1288 CUL: OP.3100.11.019 (5) 1925 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1324 CUL: OP.3100.11.019 (6) 1926 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1356 CUL: OP.3100.11.019 (7) 1927 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1414 CUL: OP.3100.11.019 (8) 1928 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1472 CUL: OP.3100.11.019 (9) 1929 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1494 CUL: OP.3100.11.019 (10) 1930 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1558 CUL: OP.3100.11.019 (11)
Unpublished Report
This can be found in the files of the Colonial Office at the Public Record Office at Kew in the United Kingdom.
1891 Annual Report
Occasional Reports
PRO: CO 133/48
These were published as Command Papers of the House of Commons, and the references are as follows:
1898-9 New Territories Report 1990 New Territories Report
HoC: 1900 vol. lv (pp. 291–320) Hoc: 1902 vol. lxvi (pp. 11-38)
"Historical & Statistical Abstract of the Colony of Hong Kong 1841-1930'
-
This was published by the Hong Kong Colonial Secretariat – the 1st edition in 1911, the 2nd edition in 1922, and the 3rd (cumulative) edition (bringing the figures and history up to 1930) in 1932. The copy we have
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used is located in the Royal Commonwealth Society Collection at Cambridge University Library.
1931-1939
Published Reports
The series of annual separate reports that began in 1890 (published by the House of Commons from 1890 to 1919, and by HMSO from 1920 to 1930) with the title of 'Annual Report' continued from 1931 to 1939 but with a different title. Henceforth they were entitled 'Annual Report on the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong'. However, they were still part of the series of annual colonial reports and the numerical sequence continued. Below are the references for the published reports in the 1930s. The reference given is for the volumes that are to be found in the Official Publications Room of Cambridge Unviersity library- as mentioned above, these references would not apply to copies located in other copyright libraries.
1931 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1585 CUL: OP.3100.11.019 (12) 1932 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1637 CUL: OP.3100.11.019 (13) 1933 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1673 CUL: OP.3100.11.019 (14) 1934 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1712 CUL: OP.3100.11.019 (15) 1935 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1775 CUL: OP.3100.11.019 (16) 1936 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1825 CUL: OP.3100.11.019 (17) 1937 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1867 CUL: OP.3100.11.019 (18) 1938 Colonial Reports-Annual: 1914 CUL: OP.3100.11.019 (19)
Unpublished Report
With the beginning of the Second World War in September 1939, the Colonial Office decided that no more colonial annual reports should be issued until the end of the war. For most colonies, the 1938 report was the last one in this series; but the 1939 report for Hong Kong does exist in proof form, and can be found in Cambridge University Library. It has been included in this collection, the reference number being given below. Because it was never published, there is no series number allocated to it.
1939 Colonial Reports-Annual:-
CUL: OP.12860.351.01 (2)
1940-1941/2
After December 1939, the period for all administration reports changed from the calendar year (1st January to 31st December) to the financial year (1st April to 31st March). Therefore, the next reports after 1939 covered the period January 1940 to March 1941, a period of 15 months. No composite Annual Report on the administration of Hong Kong (or for any colony) was written during the war years, but we do have various
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departmental administration reports as well as the financial estimates.
For the period January 1940 to March 1941, we have the following departmental administration reports, the originals of which are in the Colonial Office files in the Public Record Office. The references are as follows:
1940/41 Medical Services Department 1940/41 Education Department
1940/41 Botanical/Forestry Department 1940/41 Prisons Department 1940/41 Draft estimates
1940/41 Memo on financial position 1940/41 Notes on estimates
PRO: CO 131/105
PRO: CO 131/105
PRO: CO 131/105
PRO: CO 131/105
PRO: CO 129 576/10 PRO: CO 129 576/10 PRO: CO 129 576/10
For the financial year April 1941 to March 1942, the worsening of the war situation meant that even departmental reports could not be written. We do, however, have the draft estimates for that year, and these are again to be found in the Colonial Office files at the Public Record Office. The file references are as follows:
1941/42 Draft estimates
1941/42 Memo on financial position 1941/42 Notes on estimates
PRO: CO 129 584/2
PRO: CO 129 584/2
PRO: CO 129 584/2
No further administration reports or financial estimates were prepared until August 1945. In that month began a period of British Military Administration which lasted until April 1946 when civilian government was restored. The Military Administration produced its administration report, and from 1946 onwards the normal annual report has been produced. We hope to reproduce all these in future volumes.
Robert L. Jarman
October 1995
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VOLUME 1: 1841-1886
1841 Finance May 41-June 43[HoC: 1846 vol. XXVII] 1843 Finance July 43- Mar 44 [HoC: 1846 vol. XXVII] 1844 Martin Reports etc. see introduction for references
1844 Report on Blue Book and Trade Report [PRO: CO 129/12]
1845 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1846 vol. XXIX] 1846 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1847 vol. XXXVII] 1847 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1847-8 vol. XLVI] 1848 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1849 vol. XXXIV] 1849 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1850 vol. XXXVI] 1850 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1851 vol. XXXIV] 1851 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1852 vol. XXXI] 1852 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1852-3 vol. LXII] 1853 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1854–5 vol. XXXVI] 1854 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1856 vol. XLII]
1855 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1857 vol. X]
1856 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1857–8 vol. XL]
1857 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1859 sess. 2 vol. XXI} 1858 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1860 vol. XLIV]
1859 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1861 vol. XL] 1860 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1862 vol. XXXVI] 1861 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1863 vol. XXXIX] 1862 Report on Blue Book (HoC: 1864 vol. XL]
1863 Report on Blue Book (HoC: 1865 vol. XXXVII] 1864 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1866 vol. XLIX]
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1865 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1867 vol. XLVIII] 1866 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1867–8 vol. XLVIII] 1867 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1868–9 vol. XLIII] 1868 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1870 vol. XLIX] 1869 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1871 vol. XLVII] 1870 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1872 vol. XLII] 1871 Despatch and CO minutes [PRO: CO 129/159]
1871 Report on Blue Book (nil return) [HoC: 1873 vol. XLVIII]
1872 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1874 vol. XLIV]
1873 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1875 vol. LI]
1874 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1875 vol. LI] 1875 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1876 vol. LI] 1876 Despatch and enclosure [PRO: CO 129/171] 1877 Despatch and enclosure [PRO: CO 129/175] 1878 Despatch and enclosure [PRO: CO 129/179] 1878-80 Report on Blue Books [HoC: 1881 vol. LXIV] 1880 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1882 vol. XLIV] 1881 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1883 vol. XLV] 1882 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1883 vol. XLV] 1883 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1884 vol. LIV] 1884 Report on Blue Book [PRO: CO 133/41] 1885 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1886 vol. XLV] 1886 Report on Blue Book [HoC: 1887 Vol. LVII]