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trained in agriculture at Universities in the United Kingdom to 
continue their training as post-graduates in the tropics. 
9. Situation of the College.—Sir Leslie Probyn, K.C.M.G., 
Governor of Jamaica; Major Sir John Chancellor, K.C.M.G., 
D.S.O., Governor of Trinidad and Tobago; Mr. T. A. V. Best, 
C.M.G., C.B.E., Colonial Secretary of Trinidad and Tobago, 
and Mr. P. C. Cork, C.M.G., late Colonial Secretary of Jamaica, 
attended before the Committee and submitted evidence regarding 
the claims of their respective colonies to selection as the head- 
quarters of the proposed College. The Committee also had the 
advantage of perusing a valuable memorandum submitted by 
Sir Sydney Olivier, K.C.M.G., C.B., late Governor. of Jamaica, 
who, as Secretary of the Royal Commission in 1897, visited all 
the West Indian islands and British Guiana, and thus has an 
intimate knowledge of their conditions and requirements. 
10. After carefully considering the matter in all its aspects, 
and with special reference to the geographical position and 
grouping of the various West Indian islands and British Guiana, 
and to the general desire that the college should be closely asso- 
ciated with the Imperial Department of Agriculture, the Com- 
mittee recommend that the Tropical Agricultural College be estab- 
lished in Trinidad, provided that the Government of Trinidad 
and Tobago is prepared to afford it adequate support and every 
reasonable facility. 
11. In arriving at this decision the Committee were influenced 
by the fact that Trinidad possesses a wide variety of industries 
and is easy of access by steamer communication to residents in 
the neighbouring islands and British Guiana. 
12. The Committee recognise that the claims of Jamaica have 
great weight, this Colony having a population approximating to 
that of the rest of the West Indian islands, and a still wider 
variety of industries than that possessed by Trinidad. They 
feel, however, that difficulties of intercolonial transit would form 
a serious obstacle to the transfer of the Imperial Department of 
Agriculture to Jamaica if, as is so much to be desired, the islands 
of the Lesser Antilles are still to derive immediate adva 
from the work of that useful body. 
13. Mr. E. A. de Pass strongly urged the claims of Jamaica: 
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