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increase both the individual wealth of the owner of the 

 estate as well as of the Empire at large ; incidentally these 

 trainers of men would command large salaries to their own 

 benefit. Whilst this is going on, these newcomers would 

 set an example to the local and native owners of how 

 estates can be managed to best advantage and pests, 

 diseases, &c., kept at a distance, and so prevented from 

 reducing the outputs which are so badly needed at the 

 consuming centres. Such an action and example is 

 bound to improve the general output of tropical produce, 

 as the natives quickly follow the example of those whom 

 they see obtaining better results than themselves. One 

 successfully managed farm or estate run on up-to-date 

 lines is far more valuable to the Empire at large as an 

 object lesson to encourage other more backward planters 

 to change their methods than several years of theoretical 

 training. 



It is by such means as these that we can best achieve 

 our object of increasing the resources of the Empire to 

 the uttermost capacity of the workers available, both white 

 and coloured, and, by pursuing such a policy, the profits 

 that will accrue from these industries instead of finding 

 their way into the pockets of Germany, or of a privileged 

 few in this country, which is not beneficial to the general 

 welfare and trade of any nation, will be spread amonf a 

 large number of people of all colours and creeds living in 

 many lands who will thereby be rendered more useful to 

 the manufacturing industries of this country as suppliers of 

 raw materials, &c., as well as regular overseas buyers of 

 the goods we turn out. 



In conclusion, whilst urging upon every one to carefully 

 study every word that Mr. Wilson-Fox, Mr. Bigland, or 

 other members of their Committee have to tell us regarding 

 the serious need that exists of developing the resources 

 of the Empire in order to help pay for the War, and to note 



