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able work they are carrying on, will claim our 

 attention in a future chapter. 



But in addition to the important sugar industry 

 above mentioned, there is, a little farther to the 

 south, another growing enterprise now in course of 

 development which should not escape our atten- 

 tion. This is the exploitation of a very valuable 

 concession at Guara-Guara and Massanzane, near 

 Beira, granted some years ago to that well-known 

 South African Mr. A. L. Lawley. To Mr. Lawley 

 Beira is already indebted for much. The Beira 

 and Mashonaland Railway, from which the port 

 derives the greater measure of its importance, was 

 one among several others of South Africa's railway 

 systems which owe their efficient construction, if 

 not their existence, largely to Mr. Lawley, and 

 now that he has devoted his remarkable energies 

 to the furtherance of his agricultural interests in 

 Massanzane Bay, a satisfactory result is a foregone 

 conclusion. At Guara-Guara, then, it is intended 

 to produce rubber, cotton, sugar, and other valuable 

 products ; indeed, I believe I am right in saying 

 that the two former are already giving something 

 in the way of results ; whUst at Massanzane many 

 thousands of coconut palms have been and will be 

 planted. The Mozambique Company is, therefore, 

 fortunate in having another promising undertaking 

 within its borders, which, in its success, will doubt- 

 less go far to convince the dubious of the value ot 

 the territory over which it presides. 



If it were not for the gardens of the beautiful 

 Mission Station of the Immaculate Conception, 

 estabUshed by a prominent Roman Catholic Order 



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