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Timehri 



Resolutions. 



1. That the Government be respectfully requested to create a labour 

 Bureau available to incoming colonists or unemployed persons. 



2. That the Government be respectfully requested to place before 

 the Combined Court a proposal to set aside a sum of not less than 

 8500,000, viz., $100,000 a year for the five years commencing 1920 for 

 the purpose of carrying out under Government supervision accepted or 

 future schemes of irrigation and drainage of lands throughout the colony, 

 independently of any lands irrigated or drained under any colonisation 

 scheme. 



3. That the International Health Board should be invited by the 

 Government to continue and extend their work lin the colony, and that 

 the Government be requested to secure the services of a competent 

 sanitary engineer. 



4. That the Government be respectfully requested to take steps to 

 introduce into the colony in each year for the coming three years, five 

 thousand adults of races suitable for colonisation under local tropical 

 conditions, such adults to be as far as possible in families, the sexes being 

 approximately equal. 



5. That the present Colonisation or Export Tax which in two years 

 will have accumulated by 1920, and which is likely to average not less 

 than $160,000 per annum, be devoted for raising for this purpose during 

 the next five years a loan or loans, not exceeding in all £500,000 to be 

 repaid in thirty years. 



6. That in case of any scheme of local colonisation being accepted by 

 the Indian or any Government which involves any form of land 

 settlement by persons from outside the colony, similar inducement of 

 land settlement on similar terms of service be offered to locally resident 

 workers. 



7. That measures be taken by the Government by legislation in 

 connection with any accepted Colonisation scheme and otherwise that a 

 representative central committee or representative committees be appointed 

 to advise on any disputes in any district between capital and labour, 

 whether cane-farming or wages or otherwise, and to ensure that no person 

 entitled to any benefit under any scheme shall be arbitrarily deprived of 

 the same. 



8. That such part of the proposed loan or loans as may be necessary 

 shall be allocated to the provision of steamers by charter or subsidies 

 to ensure regular communication, if possible, every two months alter- 

 natively via the Panama Canal ami the Cape of Good Hope, with West 

 Africa, India, Straits Settlement, Hong Kong and the principal West 

 Indian colonies. Provision for 1st, 2nd and 3rd class passengers at 

 lowest possible rates to be made. 



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