§ MR. RIDSDALEI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, if considerably more than half of the revenue of the Gold Coast Colony is derived from import duties on spirits: and whether a system of revenue can be devised that does not depend for its main support upon the sale of spirits among natives.
§ COLONEL SEELYThe revenue of the Gold Coast in 1907 was £708,718. The total amount of the import duties collected on spirits was £254,348, which is rather more than one-third of the total revenue.