STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.

Inquire · Offered by Peter Harrington

Blue Book for the Year 1920. First edition, rare in commerce, of this definitive administrative and economic report, compiled by Straits Settlements civil servants for the Colonial Office. Tables of revenues and expenditures are accompanied by lists of civil servants and those in receipt of pensions, details of gaols and prisons, and tabulated data on types and destinations of key exports, to name but a few topics.

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