PAGE TWO THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1929.
INTERESTING WEST INDIAN NEWS BARBI DOS FOREST INDUSTRIES The Conservator of Forests said that although the forest industries were developing they did not offer Small Growers Want to Become Incorporated British Guiana JAMAICA Demerara Planters er at opportunitat de remployment Canada Looks to West Indies Before the Sugar and As Field for Reciprocal Commerce Says Editor Commission of Big Canadian Newspaper Seat of Councillor Questioned DENTIST HOWELL of 50, 008, 000, the total trade thus don Hay is also a member of the 000 centre of people accustomed work estates. Bush work was more or less confined to aboriginal Indians blacks, and he had found the islandThe Agricultural Reporter of te CO OPERATIVE MARKETING ers suitable for employment in the cent date says: If the peasant is to obtain the timber industries Canada is the second country in in Jamaica have the things we want While the Imperial Commission first fruit of his labour he must enGEORGETOWN, Nov. 20. The Director of Agriculture said the world for export and total trade Jamaicans in their relations with the of which Baron Olivier is Chairman deavour to co operate in marketing The examination of the planters was that there was plenty of good land per capita.
external world must never let out of wes in Barbados recently, enquiring his produce. The co operative selling concluded at yesterday session of for villagers to cultivate and genThat was the revelation made to their minds the fact that the Big into the depressed condition of the of canes is impossible at present the Sugar Commission and evidence erally speaking the pepople were in our Yepresentative yesterday says Brother in the North is always will sugar industry, representative because the factory owners will only taken later of the Immigration Agent position to grow their own food the Jamaica Mail of the 21st ulto. ing to co operate with Jamaica in committee of the peasant proprietors buy from individual growers. The General Conservator of Forests, the At present Agricultural Societies by Mr. McGuillieaddy, City way which will be good for both of Barbados, says the Agricultural co operative marketing of vegetables Director of Agriculture, and the were not well organised, but the Editor of the Toronto Mail and Em of us.
Reporter of October 26th, presented has so far never been attempted and Government Entomologist.
Government were considering the pire (the paper which has the larg. Mr. MeGaillicuddy, who is here on to the Commission a lengthy memo the grower is at the mercy of the Regarding immigration from the advisability of strengthening them est morning circulation in Canada) pleasure trip, is accompanied by rial on the position of that class of distributor. It le sells it to the itine Mr. Gibson, a planter, said with new ideas, which they had for as he stepped off the gangway from his wife.
cultivators rant hawker the price is usually the planters had been in the habit district organization from an agri: the Lady Rodney yesterAmong other matters, the com about one half of the price paid by of sending a head man to Barbados cultural point of view.
day morning.
mittee pointed out that while the the consumer. If he endeavours to to select country fam es, and this On the question of pests and diHis statement, he said, was author peasantry grows food crops, they bring his produce into the city the method had been very successful.
cease, the Government Entomologist itative, being contained in the of are also forced to cultivate sugar wholesale buyer will only purchase Lord Olivier said that was precise said that about 25 per cent of caneficial report on Canada trade for cane. There has been an enormous at a price which will leave him ly the kind of migration it was desir joints were affected by moth borers 1929 which is now ready for presendecrease in the cultivation of ban handsome profit. There are great able to establish. He said the seaHe said most estates were still us tation, to the Canadian House of amas and of other fruits, but the difficulties in the way of establish sonal migration was not so good ing the old methods of collection in Commons, when it is assembled in An interesting question has been Chinese or Dwarf banana (Miss ing a co operative selling agency from the point of view of both Col pest control, but further research January This report is authorised raised by persons who take an inCavendishi) can be cultivated practi But it is felt that if a few of the onies, as migration for permanent was neccesary before any recommen by the Honourable James Malcolm terest in municipal politics.
cally throughout the island. It may larger owners who could obtair settlement. it was disclosed that Minister of Trade and Com At the last meeting of the Trustees be mentioned to show the possibilities either money or credit would come dur. ng the crop seasons in the Springdation could be made.
of Wolmer Schools the Rev. Gordon of banana cultivation that in 1904 together and start such an organiza and Autumn months cane The Commission adjourned until merce in the Federal Government.
cutt this morning.
Also contained in the report is the Hay, who was an applicant for the some obtained from approximately tion the majority of peasants would ccnld earn as much as dollar, information that in 1929 there has position of Secretary to the Trustees 100 acres of land and shipped to the join as their suspicions were allayed day.
has been an increase in total trade was elected to that position. Mr. GorUnited Kingdom.
In view of Lord Passfield remarks The planters expressed the dislike The great needs are credit and in the House of Lords during the of the export tax as they felt they reaching a declared value of 80. 000 Council of the Kingston and St. Adexpert instruction, and above all, debate on the Colonial Development were handicapped by anything ir House No. 912 La Boca drew Corporation better system of marketing, Bill we feel we are justified in bring the form of taxation on production Canal Zone An attractive personality and ob Wolmer Schools are administer Special attention should be givering this matter before the Com. An acreage tax would be considered to the cultivation of corn in view of mission for your advice and assis. slightly better, but they would pre OPPOSITE RESTAURANT viously of the alert type of journalisted under. scheme of the School which a competitive like Commission, and the the fact that 30, 018 bags of corn meal tance.
119 fer a tax on income after it was Board of PHONE 1941. BALBOA Toronto demands, Mr. McGillieuddy Trustees include sta members of the of value of 34, 972 were imported LABOUR CONDITIONS eamed.
Specialises in all Branches of expressed decided views on the de Council of the Kingston and St. An into the island 1927; and cas. There is a scarcity of agricultural velopment of trade between Canada drew Corporation elected by the seva could also be cultivated on labour in this island. It is generally Dentistry and the West Indies.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED Council from time to time.
large scale to take the place in the found that the man who pays the of sanitation, has effectively put an The Treaty. he said, sa sane dietary of the people of flour of best wage gets the best labourers end to the selling of plantations It is being contended that Mr RESIDENCE538 one, one of the samest things ever Gordon Hay is eligible at any time which an amount of a declared value and an adequate supply.
There is now no possibility of the worked out for the mutual advance to be elected as a member of the of 152, 404 was imported during the The inadequacy of pay, however peasants obtaining any new holdings ment of the British Empire.
Board of Trustees of Wolmer same year. It is, however, necessary turns many potential labourers into unless this Act, be repealed or at BUY FROM THE WORKMAN If is also a logical and economic Schools, and the question is being to kiln dry corn if it is to keep for idlers, for the prefer to iddle for least amended.
expression of good will. It is only asked whether, in view of that fact any time and to introduce proper nothing than work for nothing.
ADVERTISERS AND GET the beginning of the larger develop be can also be the Secretary to the milling machinery. In the conside Large numbers of young men and Writing editorially is a recent is VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY ment which is bound to take place Trustees, while holding his seat at ration of the establishment of alter women have migrated to the city sue the Weekly Herald says: when the advantages to both coun the Council of the Corporation native crops, attention should also among other reasons because the The Agricultural Society and the tries are realised.
Another point is, whether Mr. Gor be given to the question of irriga average wage of the steady agricul local Departments of Agriculture Drink Salada Tea the best for Put simply. he said, we in Can don Hay, receiving a salary from tion.
22 tural labourer for a year is less than might well turn their attention to the Troplo ada have the things you want; you (Continued on page PEASANTS BANK the casual labourer obtains for the supply of winter vegetables to The first need of the small holder few months of intermittent work Canada. In Bermuda a very profitcredit. For supplying this need a Much of the work is still performed able trade is done with America, and Peasants Bank is essential. The grant by children under the age of 12 Jamaica has turned its eyes towards from the Imperial Government of years in spite of the Statute which Canada where the demand for to180. 000 in 1902, was utilized to es. prohibits it; and some schoolmasters matoes and such articles in the tablish a Sugar Industry Agricul. have found children of seven years winter is both steady and lucrative tural Bank to assist the planters by of age working in the fields. The to the tropical producer. The very advancing loans at a reasonable rate intellect of such children is never excellent steamship service betweer INCORPORATED 1869 of interest and it has been the developed and they usually grow up the West Indies and Canads makes mainstay of the larger cultivators to be dull, incompetent and frequent the venture easier than at any time Few peasant cultivators have suc ly dangerous members of the comin the past.
ceeded in obtaining loans from this munity. The stringent enforcement The failure of sugar as a profitBank, and certainly no application of the Act prohibiting child labour able industry in Barbados has made for loan from an owner of less is absolutely necessary.
our planters great and small look in PANAMA COLON than ten acres would be considered PURCHASE OF LAND other directions. There are at present Santa Ana Plaza The Commission has expressed the experiments with tobacco, and the It is imperative that similar credit Corner 11th and Bolivar Streets facilities should be extended to the desire to know what provisions are supply of vegetables for home conpeasant cultivators who made for the acquisition of land by sumption is also receiving greater greatly in need of money for tilling the peasants in this island and we attention. In some districts the bantheir land and the purchase of accordingly draw your attention to ana is also receiving consideration manures as the larger planters. We the provisions of the Public Health But if an export market for our protherefore suggest for the consider Amendment Act which is commonly duce could be found we believe it ation of the Commission the proposal referred to as the Tenantries Bin would be equally advantageous that an adequate sum of money Before the passing of this Act Barbados. It is patent that a reliance With 900 Branches throughout the world, including should be granted for the establish plantations were frequently cut up upon sugar cane can not be mainthe following in the British West Indies etc, this Bank ment of Peasants Bank to supply and sold in lots to peasants, the price tained indefinitely, and we earnestly credit to small farmers being regulated by the law of sup suggest to our Department of Agriis in a position to render the best possible service.
After emphasizing the need of Ag ply and demand. The provisions of culture that the possibility of the ricultural Instrutors for peasant this Act. however, which was osten northern market be explored. Kitchen farmers, the memorial proceeled: sibly designed for the improvement garden produce is now regularly atAntigua Dominica Moment tended to on a small scale, and nc Bahamas Greuada St. Kitts one who has seen the specimens can Barbados qur agricultural exhibitions Jamaica (2)
St. Lucia TRY doubt the suitability of our soil. And British Honduras Trinidad (2)
Mart though production on a big scale Guadeloupe (2)
British Guiane (2)
would of course be surrounded with certain difficulties, it is just here SALAD OIL that the skilled scientific help we have at our disposal would be valuable. We hope that if the AgriculHIGHEST CURRENT RATES OF INTEREST and kitchen tural Department has not yet considered this means of improving the PAID ON DEPOSITS ON SALE AT ALL FIRST CLASS GROCERS condition of planters that the possibilities will be investigated and that some assistance will be given te Panama 65. PHONES. Colon 84 our now depressed agricultural in.
dustry.
a The Royal Bank of Canada Head Office: Montreal, Canada are as Total Assets in Excess of 950, 000, 000. 00 to CRD MIRAMAR Truly a Miracle oil, for table The Panama Coca Cola Bottling Co. General Banking Business Transacted.