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228. A further circumstance which will to some extent affect 
the prosperity of Barbados is the intended transfer of the Imperial 
troops to St, Lucia. We were informed that the presence of the 
troops leads to a yearly ct eae aah in the Colony of about 50,000/. 
of Imperial money. This causes a de Ru for local products 
which will be lost when the SUD are removed. 
9. No time, eir iie must be lost Urpi deciding upon such 
measures as can be taken 
Settlement on Land. 
230. As sugar lands fall out of ME they can either be 
sold in small lots or leased at low rents mall cultivators. This 
might obtain the means to oc aoe themselves by growing ground 
provisions or other crops, which will contribute to the food supply 
In this matter the Court of Chancery must, of course, be guided 
by the interests of the persons whom it represents, but it may be 
possible for the Government to facilitate the breaking up of 
estates in this manner by purchasing and re-selling them in small 
lots. * 3 = oe me * 
Emigration. 
233. Emigration is a natural and, in view of complaints as to 
want of labour elsewhere, at first sight a promising suggestion. 
A considerable number of Barbadians do at present emigrate, 
permanently or temporarily, in search of subsistence, and many 
of them make excellent colonists in their new homes. But such 
experiments as have been made with the special object of 
supplying Barbadian labour to sugar planters in other colonies 
have not proved satisfactory. More than one reason was given 
for this, whith will be found in the evidence, but apart from this 
difficulty it is certain that if the sugar industry fails in Barbados, 
it will fail also in oe other Colonies, and there can be no demand 
in them for labourers on bores estates. In other words, the 
greater the pressure rot want which arises in Barbados, the less 
hien be the opportunity t finding employment for pirsa 
on sugar estates elsewhere, though, on the other hand, if the sugar 
industry fails the pressure of want will doubtless strengthen the 
desire to emi 
234. Strong objections were raised by witnesses to the form 
which emigration takes at present. It was urged that the hap- 
relations unprovided for at home, was not an advantage, but we 
do not see how such emigration can be interfered with even were 
it degienbie to do so 
235. It would seem that the only form in which assisted 
emigration may be at the same time possible, serene an 
successful, is that of removing whole families and placing them 
in settlements in less thickly populated countries. Sas, as in 
British Guiana, Trinidad, and Dominica, there are large tracts of 
