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36. Further trials are necessary before such canes can 
funds, by lack of sufficient area of suitable land as well as b 
insufficient time at the disposal of the officers concerned. The 
grant made by Government is about £200 annually. No other 
funds are ava piita For the first time in the history of the 
sugar contents of the beet. We have thus a most effective means 
of improving the sugar industry; and considering the importance 
of these experiments, not only to British Guiana but to the whole 
the Appendix it is proposed to afford assistance to continue these 
experiments in an extended form from Imperial funds. 
DEVELOPMENT OF SUBSIDIARY INDUSTRIES IN BRITISH 
GUIANA. 
37. Asalready shown, the whole activity of British Guiana during 
the last 60 years has been confined to the narrow stri ip of land 
along the coast. In spite o the vast extent of rich and fertile 
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conseguently th Colony is now in so ¢ ritical a condition, owing 
its entire dependence on ingle pa ehhi that its very 
existence as a civilised county is is in jeopardy. 
38. It may be safely assumed that the labour hee nearly one- 
third of the present population of the Colony is unproductive 
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community. The removal of this portion of the population, not 
dependent on the sugar industry, from the coast lands on which 
they are now settled to the river lands of the interior must 
necessarily Lone a slow and tedious process. Should the gold 
industry beco more flourishing, a portion of the negro 
population will ‘einen tially Roe; its way to certain parts of the 
forest region, and in time small more or less permanent settle- 
ments will be formed. ia the meantime, Pe, there are 
lands immediately accessible on the ba nks e rara, 
Essequebo, and Berbice rivers, formerly occupi ied by cacao or 
coffee estates, which were gradually a andoned as the coast 
the hands of negroes, who are quite unable to utilize them, and 
as the question of the ownershi ip of many of them is obscure and 
involved they can neither be sold nor leased to persons anxious 
to acquire them. A Commission — the “ Titles to ieas 
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presented a report, but no action has hitherto been Ps en Ik 
