TRADE IN PALESTINE(Continued from Page 101)
Articles. IMPORTS. Acids ..................... Animals living ............. Breadstuffs: Flour ......... Cement .................... Coal ...................... Coffee .................... Drugs ..................... Fancy goods ............... Fish, salt and dried ....... Glassware and pottery ... Hides and leather ......... Iron and steel, manufactures of: Bedsteads, of iron.... Hardware ............. Iron bars, girders, etc. ................ Iron, other ............. Machinery ............. Motors ................ Oil: Illuminating ......... Linseed and machine ................ Olive ................... Paint ................... Papers and stationery.. Potatoes ................ Provisions ............. Rice .................... Sacks, empty ......... Salt .................... Soda, caustic ......... Sugar ................... Textiles: Cotton goods ......... Other ................... Tiles and bricks ....... Tobacco and snuff ... Wines and spirits ... Wood, manufactures of: Furniture, etc. .... Lumber ............. All other articles ......... Total .....................
FEATURES OF THE IMPORT TRADE.
The heavy increase in the import of flour was due to local crop shortages and consequent high prices. France was the chief source of supply, with Roumania second, while Bulgaria, Russia, Italy, and Austria furnished the remainder.
Of the rice imports the returns credit England with over half and Egypt with about one-fourth. The import was probably almost all Saigon and Rangoon rice.
Sugar imports increased about $66,000 in value, and amounted to 4,400 tons, the greater quantities coming from Germany and Austria. Belgium, Russia, and France also shared in the trade.
There was an increase of $58,537 in the sales of tobacco and snuff. The figures may be taken as representing the sales of the Ottoman Tobacco Regie. There is a very small importation of foreign-made cigars, also a limited amount of tobacco is grown and consumed locally.
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JEWISH NATIONAL FUND BUREAU FOR AMERICA.
Monthly Report.
The following monies were received by the Jewish National Fund Bureau for America, 165 East Broadway, New York City, during the period of Sept. 1st-30th, 1911:
For National Fund Stamps, $667.81 " Olive Trees, 384.80 " Golden Book, 333.83 " National Fund Collections, 295.48 " National Fund Boxes, 134.22 " Dunam Land, 75.00 " Co-operative Fund, 20.00 " Self-Taxtation, 6.00 " N. F. Telegrams, 1.10 Total, $1918.24