TIMEHRI: 



THE JOURNAL OF 



THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL SOCIETY 

 OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



VOL. VI. SEPTEMBER, 1919. Colonisation Volume. 



EDITORAL NOTES. 



This is a Colonisation volume and most of the articles have some 

 bearing upon the great problem of populating the Colony. 



It might perhaps be considered that the account of the migration of 

 British settlers in Surinam in Mr. Cundall's paper has little bearing on 

 the subject, but when it is carefully read the opposite will appear. 

 Surinam, Jamaica and Antigua wanted colonists, and the proprietor of 

 Surinam had a grievance when the colony was given over to the Dutch. 

 Lord Willoughby knew that a colony without people was useless to its 

 owners. The British, who had mostly come from Barbados, were as loyal 

 as the " Little Englanders " of to-day, but they claimed the right to carry 

 off their labourers, which the Dutch wanted to prevent. The account of 

 the provisions made for the Surinam immigrante in Jamaica is very 

 suggestive ; free land and assistance at the beginning was the rule ; Mr. 

 Oudschans Dentz gives us the Dutch side of the matter. 



Opening up the country has always been advocated by Timehri, but 

 we cannot do very much with the people we have. At the same time due 

 praise must be given for what has been done, for after all we cannot 

 develop any place without settlers. The same difficulties we have now 

 were prominent in the olden time ; they cropped up whenever an 

 attempt was made to develop the colony. Instead of getting a 

 fuller labour supply our predecessors took the people from cotton 

 and coffee to grow sugar, Future development should not be on such 

 lines, for we want to retain all our industries. The papers on African, 

 East Indian and Chinese immigration should help to show the value 

 of the different peoples, In a progressive world every man is faulty but 

 we must not lay undue stress upon their faults. 



It is hardly necessary to excuse the first paper on Timehri rocks, 

 but it may be desirable to explain that the portrait of the Assistant Editor 



