TAGE TWO THE WORKMAN SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1922 Interesting News From The West Indian Islands Industry in ALBOA EST EER REWED one of matically end Isthmian Undertaking Co. Ltd CALLE No on this Notice To Shareholders.
customarily sister PRIVATE ACADEMY English Classes For Young Ladies 6 AND FOR BOYS 7 Mon.
Tues, Thurs. Fridays All Shareholders of the above named Company are requested to attend a meeting, whien will be held at the Company busi nesa place on Wednesday Jany, 15. 1922 at 30 By order of the Board of Directors.
CLEMENT ASHBY, Actg. Secretar. BURTON, of. have resigned But we Mrs.
and cotton was under a eloud, telegram has been received Jamaica the revival of 1919 failing to re by Plantations Limited, owners store it to the status even of a of the drogher Active which was Minor industry.
blown away from the sea coast Jamaica Industries aging The Report speaks encour of this island during the gale on agingly of the new sisal hemp September 3, to the effect that Sis al hemp is now the Active has been found off the figuring in the lists of exports coast of La Gusyra, a town Thelr Progress During Last two small factories being in Venezuela. The firm has desYear.
active operation and consider. patched a telegram to the British Consul at that port requesting able areas being planted. Even at the present low prices there him to make investigations and would seem to be a margin of torward details. feature of the Annual Report of the Hon. H. Cousins, profit when the manufacture is Director of Agriculture in Ja is prosThe local agricultural exhibimaica, which has just been pering; the large sum of 119, 0001 tion held annually under the published, of with the instructions of the being credited to the vamaica auspices of the Secretary of State for the Colo cigar account for the year. As Agriculture came off at the Belle nies, it covers the calendar year year 1920 marked the greates of was regards the cattle industry, the pladeeid en St. Michael and success.
quality instead of the financial year, in of the exhibits was of a high order to bring it into line with progress ever made in Jamaica standard and the most pleasing the Statistical Reports of the in the importation of fresh feature of the show was the Trade of the Colony blood of the finest breeds of tremendous interest taken in it та cattle for use there for the by the masters and pupils of The year 1920 was not only an extremely bad one for agricul purposes of beef, milk and the elementary schools who exthe most is to extraordinary the island bad plete small experimental plant ever experienced. The average was erected for the manufacture The official programme of our of condensed milk.
was the lowest recorded February race meeting issued for forty eight years, and yet recently by the Barbados Turf the sugar estates of the western Club is a very atractive one, of Jamaica, Dec. 6th It has been and lends encouragement to the the island suffered from excessive rain to such an extent decided that Jamaica shall be prospect of fine fun. The colony as seriously to hamper the represented at the forthcoming owns some very good goers at manufacture of sugar. But West Indian over large areas of the island. Trinidad and three delegates support which we deserve from la present, and if we receive the the con conditions of drought have been selected by the legis our neighbours then were experienced, causing a lack lative Council viz. Hon, J, tests should be as good as the of foodcrops and loss to stock own Phillips, member for St. Thomas. best of past years. There is no ers, de a te banana indüsers, Hon. Nash member for Gold of course is eers who especially in the St. Mary dis Manchester and Hon. 11. Gol triet, experienced a severe set Simpson, O, B, E, member for are handsome and certainly as back.
Kingston favourable as those competed for in any The year, however, witnessed colony.
an unprecedented intation in the prices of produce in the Barbados world markets, coupled with such an active demand that the The Staff Officer of the Barbados Volunteers has been dure was tempted to export Speech Day At Harrison Rexting it in the neck recently result was that, in spite of on account of his auverse critiadverse climatic conditions, the College.
cism of the Cadet Corps and total exports showed a value of the Boy Scouts. The gallant over 7, 000. 000 more than that Oficers the Cadet Corps, we Harrison College held its see of those of previous years.
it stated, in order to to mark Speech Day on Friday 16th ulto, their indignation at these criti: The expts of sugar did not at the College. There was acism.
exceed 37, 000 tons, a figure con very large gathering among still вее siderably below the estimate, in whom were His Excellency the their uniforms and as we can schoolboys sporting spite of a large increase in the Governor and Lady Brien ac hardly imagine a Cadet Corps areas under cane cultivation and companied by Lieut. Swinley, without officers we are of the in factory capacity. The crop, ADC, the Hon. Jackson, opinion that nothing very serihowever, realised 3, 000, 0001. and Colonial Secretary, and bus will ensue. But we feel that the Report states that the Phil.
euse су ey of lactories now in lips, or in course of erection existence lips. The Bired and to maintain an export of ill directed.
about 60, 000 tons of sugar, and, tertained the gathering with not caught on in Barbados. It rison College Glee Club en: speak truthfully Scouting has a market from which fairly songs and glees and a scene may be that the foundation on remunerative prices for Shakespeare Henry which it is based and which has 1)
in future contribute to this ex The Headmaster Rev.
en casa it has has been is too broad sugar for tent to the fullre. The ten doings of the school for the the British gave a short account of the for Barbados. Be that as it al present is to extend the year referring especially to the way the fact remains that time the and again the Governor and the oduction of bananas rather College War Memorial and the other gentlemen who form the than that of sugar, but it is ex: Anniversary. The Prizes were directing Committee have hard to pressly stated that the advan: distributed by His Excellency point out the very unsatisfactory tage of the island having a fairly the Governor who in a short manner in which the public large sugar industry while devebante deves speech impressed upon boys loping the trade in bananas is the need for paying greater espond to the movement.
obvious to everyone who has had attention to the Cadet Corps experience of the two industries and expressed a desire to see a It has been stated that in Jamaica. The exports of Scout Troop formed the bananas for the year amounted College. vote of thanks to out have had something to do at the high grade schools by standing 9, 000, 000 stems of the value of Lady Brien was moved by Mr. with this state of affairs and 1, 630, 0001. and the cocoanut crop Phillips after which the sing ng Captain Shepheard gave it out showed an increase in export of of the National Anthem and the that he understood that the over 4, 000, 000 nuts as compared resounding cheers of the boys reason was that parents object with 1919. The value of the nuts brought the at of the 700 tons of copra ship. afternoon entertainment to a with children of other classes 356 0001, as against close.
Baden Powell likes to 300, 0001 for the previous year.
them mixed Parents certainly see The logwood industry enjoyed a riod of great prosperity, with Barnabas district have apprachSeveral good folk from the St. actions of their children and no at xport value of 700, 0001, al.
though, at the date of the Report ed closing of the St. Barnabas and eat it.
ed us with regard to the propos person can say them nay. But then we cannot have our calea log wood was almost unmerchant Church burying ground.
Either able, and the local dye factories ment must be properly support complain, and it appears to used ceased almost to work. This with compel resi it must be frankly due, not to competition pelitate dritte Gebe dents from that districted take admitted that Boy Scouting is with but to paralysis genius of our their dead to Westbury Ceme not suited to the of their dead to trade and the cessation of manu. Iery 18 unreasonable, and greatest renection on the people people. And would be the facture to inconvenient from point of goods. for which log wood dyes poorer people of the district. we support to of Barbados that de decided by the non were largely used: further hear that the plea of support of the people who can The cacao was 30 per is true. the Boy Scout short of that year, but fetched 22, 0001, while which could be hof the coprevious that they are several graves movement is undesirable be the indiscriminate is the citrus industry never too haya recovered from grave digger has quite a lot to do the more shame to us.
stated that the remuneration of the mixing, well and good, and there is an end to the matter. And the closing of the American with the matter. If that func market new era however, is tionary were given five or six By the way now that Captain now opening for the industry as shillings for each grave, the result of the Canadian there Shepheard has weighed would not be any trouble. We Cadets and Scoutmasters in the ciprocity Treaty, as to which the write as it has been related to balances and found them want.
hope is expressed that it wil But in any case Rev. Mallalieu ing. we would really like him ment for the disposal of Jamaica bring about a better state of af Volunteer Force, citrus fruits in the Dominion.
fairs in his district. Surely if The shortness of the coffee the present cemetery is over: As the year grows older, the was crowded some more land could proceso received, and the celebrat beracun redes sociale a wise the roue seerns to be speeding up in a con Still are Parochial Vouchers scandal ed Blue to have sold at higher prices than ble. It is up to the people of St. companying interest, and is like has been the experience of any Barnabas to get up a petition ly to dead beat with Christliving planter. Pimento was in stating their case clearly and put mus in claiming attention. The demand, but the supply for ex. it before the proper authority. Committee of the Vestry, apport was only ball that of 1919, Barbados Weekly Herald. Continued on page 7)
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Leagurerer, and the Scoutmasters were ill con: OD passed cient to 800 given a marke sugar from be for the of pasta the ved was 88 have the right to control the our cake move.
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