PAGE TWO THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1924 Interesting News from The West Indian Islands new and efficient means of telegrayh communication will contribute future prosperity to your Colony PACIFIC CABLE BOARD New Year! New Year. young men a board on THE BRANCH STORE His Excellency replied 88 follows:In acknowledgment of the Board initial message, Trinidad and Tobago offer congratulations to the Pacific Cable Board on the successful inauguration of the new service, which will undoubtedly contribute to the Colony development bylatfording means of rapid communication with other West Indian Islands and with the Mother Country.
AMERICAN BAZAAR Situated at Central Avenue and Corner Street BRITISH GUIANA Next FOOTWEAR Says Finance Experts are Of Little Avail.
wife BRITISH GUIANA PAPER COM MENTS UPON REPORTS MADE ON THIS ISLAND.
MR. DALE OPINION Things Jamaica Needs Most Broadering of the Basis Of Taxation.
To day Dr. Gems BLOOD ELIXIR For strengthening the BLOOD Barbour JAMAICA. ly of others there will be hard fouch battle, IN THE METROPOLIS.
Boat Capsized and in the metropolis, the Hon will Men are Drowned eming fo ward again and as already announced Mr. Bain Alves has intimated his untiring Alligator Pood, Monday. de eto sit in one of th. com fishing boat belonging to Mr. loriable arm chairs at HeadCharles Thompson of Allig quarters House with the letters Pond left this port with five alter bis name. So there DO YOUR NEW YEAR SHOPPING AT Friday will be a contest. Mr.
night and has not been seen or Bryant name has been menheard of since.
tioned but up to now there is The names of the men are: nothing definite as to whether John Martin, Yasha Ford of be will come forward or not, but Plowden, Hubert Powell, Charles rumour says, and rumour is OF THE Rowe, and another man from always a busybody on such ocBull Savanna (St. Elizabeth. casions as elections, that Kings.
The boat was sighted last by ton might not be without three Charles Brooks in the early part candidates with as spirited, and of Saturday morning under full as keenly contestad election as sail, who reports that squall any other parish.
came on at the same time, and week with Christmas it is supposed that the boat staring us in the face, we shall capsized acd the nea perished.
hear of the colours of this cinThe event cast a gloom over didate and of that. The week the entire district on Sunday after every one will be too merry morning. It is sad to note that to think perhaps, of such mundathey were all young pen in the ne things as elections, but the prime of life, and the majority following week we shall awaken FOR married, leaving and to brighter and better things children behind. e. bands and banners and possibly Rum and Bunners.
Women Misses Gentlemen Who can tell?
NEW HOME FOR THE The Guvernor has appointed GOVERNOR AND THE the following gentlemen to be Buy at The Branch Store of The AMERICAN BAZAAR and COLONIAL OFFICERS, Riturning Officers for the Electoral Districts set opposite BE SATISFIED their nanes in connection with His Excellency decision to the General Election to be held remove thofties of the Colo. in Janu? y. 1925 aial Secretariat to a more suit. G Guntlett. St.
able place is being carried ous Thomas, MH. Cooper, St.
promptly.
Mary, scott, St. Ann; and to no row the Mr. Browa, St Elz. beth; Education offices will be removed Mr. Burrowes St. Catherine.
fron the pain Government SOS SOXOXO block in King Street to the Doninion Trade Delegaold Nursing Hostel at Eust Street and Bed ord Avenue.
tion to The top floor in King Sreet is being prepared for the Colonial secretariat, where The Colonial Secretary has in a3 already formed the Gleaner that the se stated, the Governor is to have cretary of State for the Colonies, will also be provided in close proximity under cover of a telegram dated for his and his private the 4th of December, bas intimasecretary, for Colonel Bryan, sad that the Canadian Gover and the Assistant Color: relations with the West Indies ment, with a view to developing taries, Mr. Doly a Mc. propose to de patch a delegation Hale, and th: rensader to the Wist Indian colonies, Bar.
of the staff muda and British Guiana darSight alterations are being ing the coming winter, beaded made for the new requirem uts by the Hon and the Cobail Otice will be of Trade and Comm nerce. Low, Minista, Recommended for Removing the Humors of settled in its new temporary Low will be accompanied by his Scrofulous Diseases, Pimples, Boils, Blotches, home in the very near future.
Private Secretary, by Mr. Lacan, Tetters.
Member of the Canadian ParliaUseful in Chronic and Syphilitic mon Mrs. Logan Rheumatism, Mercurial Affections and DisDissolution of Council James Russell, Tariff Expert a eases caused by Impurities of the Blood.
from the Railway Department whose name has not yet been An Alterative recommended for purifyannounced Further that the date of the sailing of the delegaing and enriching the BLOOD.
GENERAL ELECTIONS WILL TAKS tion had not yet been fixed, but PLACE DURIN: THE LAST that it may possibly be early in WEEK IN JANUARY The Secretary of Stata for For Sale at all Drug Stores the Colonies, in a subsequent STRUGGLE FOR SEATS. telegram, has intimated that the And in Large Quantities by Canadian Government state that Already Contests Are Ex the Trade Delegation and that Mr. Low is now unable to head JAVIER MORAN. American Pharmacy pected In All But Mr. Logan will sail for Bermuda on the 13th of December leaving Three Parishes.
AGENT there on the 23rd of December, accompanied by Lieut. Col.
Although no detinite date has Ross as technical advisers.
Carlton Brown and Mr.
as yet been decided upon, it can be stated on good outhority, that the gislative Council will be formally dissolved in the tirst TRINIDAD of my continued interest in week in January. The election their welfare.
will take place during the last GEORGE week so that there will be about NEW CABLE SYSTEM.
CALL IN AT 25 26 HIS EXCELLENCY REPLY.
tering.
The Gleaner learns that the final date will be decided THE KING SENDS FIRST Sir Horace Byatt seat the upon at an early date.
MESSAGE following reply:In some of the parishes, the December 1st, 1924. On behalf electioneering fever is already CONGRATULATIONS TO of the people of Trinidad and catching on. St. Andrew and Portland seem to be leading the WEST INDIES.
Tobago, desire to tender a way, and so far it appears that grateful acknowledgement of the gracious message with which St. Andrew will have the largest No. 93, Central Avenue THE WEEKLY GUARDIAN in its Your Majesty has inaugurated number of Candid ites It is issue of December 6th, says. the new telegraph systern and also clear that there will be a Oh the occasion of the open to convey an assurance of our change of members for some ing to public service of the West unfailing lovaly and devotion parishes. For St. Andrew for Indian Telegraph System of the to your Majesty Crown and instance there will be no member Pacific Cable Board the following person.
ASSORTMENT OF as the Hon. Major Dixon first message over the new GOVERNOR wil pot be seeking reelection, system was sent by His Majesty St. Catherine member, the late the King to the Gevarnor of GOOD STATIONERY Hon and Rev. Young, hus TrinidadCABLE BOARD MESSAGE TO passed over to the great beyond, Loudon. November 30, 1924.
THE GOVERNOR.
SOUVENIRS, and, as his successor, the Parochial Board of St. Cathe ine bas To the Goveraor, Trinidad.
asked its Chairinin, NSI bave learned with much 1st. Dcember 1924.
Meeks to come forwa d, Ia three interest of the successful com The Paciff Cahle Baars sont parishes up to now namely, St. pletion of the new cable and the following messape to His Thounas, Hanover, and Care, Radly avail myself of the op Excellency the Governor:don there are no indications of portunity of seading as the On occasion of opening Gov.
any contest. There are one or first message over the newernmen: West Indian Celegraph two decide in Indies and an hopthat report thig we can that Early Conning Month December.
dle that The Daily Chronicle of Georgetown, British Guiana, published the following editorial in a recent issue. Within a comparatively brief span of years Jamaica bas been blessed with no less than two Financial Experts to report upon its finances and administratios; and we note a tendency to make such visits a feature of that island administration; while the suggestion bas not been unheard of locally.
In 1099 Sir David visited the island, and after an exhaustive examination issued bis Report on the Finances of Jamaica, and last year Mr. Dale, Assistant Secretary in the English Ministry of Agriculture, was detailed to make a simlar examination and Mr. Dale bas now submitted his report and its text has been published in the island press, but, if at distance we venture to offer any opioion, we wou would say the report conveys little taht could not have been elicited by local inquiries; or should have not been pretty well known to island legislation, if they in any way took their duties seriously.
It is not that we decry the ability evidently brought to bear on the task by the enquirier, or the soundness of the views expressed. All we feel is the report seems to disclose lose nothing that is startling, nor does it indicate any Royal Road to progress or plenty. For these reasons we want to draw an object lesson for our local gropers; and express the bope that nothing further will be beard of the visit of any financial expert to put our house in or der. Briefly put, Mr. Dale expresses the opinion that the Jamaica Government has made mistakes, but may reasonably be excused for doing so; that Government trading is pernicious and unsound, and should be avoided, that expenditure should be kept within ressonable bounds, and that a reserve fund sbould be built up. But.
ALL THESE ARE SELF EVIDENT.
and hardly regaired a financial expert to discover them. Or course, we hailed with delight some suggestion as to how evolve a system to which could collect the same revenue at ball cost; bow road built to carry a traffic of four motor cars should be made to stand up under the joy ridng of twenty: or how one policeman could grow in the place of two, and at half the cost. But obvily, except the first mentioned, these things do not come strictly within the purview of a financial expert. What it seems to us is need ed in Jamaica, no less than in British Guiana, is some wizard (Continue on page 7)
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