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284. The Botanical V'aparimonks in Trinidad should be entirely 
asteved of the in oes of ornamental gardening and the supply 
"E SkresinepteL eultivation of economic plants, and to attempts 
to secure improved varieties of such plants, and especially of sugar 
cane. It should comprise a branch for the teaching of tropical 
agriculture, and should form a centre from which teachers would 
be sent to give practical lessons in the nig Aces of tropical plants 
and the selection of suitable localities ipd growing them 
5. Special and well-considered arr deme should be made 
for facilitating the settlement of the Creole and East Indian popu- 
lation as peasant PUE OE on the Crown lands, and on any other 
suitable lands that may be, or may become, available 
288. We are, however, of eroe that special arrangements for 
the opening out of the Crown lands in small lots will not as a 
rule be popular with the persons who are interested in pos 
estates in Trinidad. In such a Colony, with a sparse population 
and virgin soil waiting to be opened up, the pecie planters vin 
experienced difficulties in getting at all times as much labou 
they required at the prices which they were abet or tad 
perhaps afford, to pay, and they have not looked with favour on 
any policy having for its eine ex the opening out of the Crown 
lands to the labouring populat 
9. We regret thatany ican tin We tion of ours should aggravate, 
or have the appearance of aggravating, even temporarily, the diffi- 
culties under which they at present labour, and which, for the 
that we have no choice in the matter. Whatever the con- 
Sequences to individuals may be, the position of your Majesty’s 
possessions in the West Indies at the present time is sucb that 
every possible een should be given to the native eae 
of earning their livelihood otherwise than on a sugar estate, and 
that they should not be forced to depend longer than be helped 
on the maintenance of a single and precarious industry. 
290. Trinidad would share in the advantages of o subsidised 
steamer service which we have recommended to facilitate access 
to other markets and abng means for the migration of labourers 
between the islands. 
291. It would also appear to be possible to R a trade of 
some importance between Trinidad and Venezuela. At present 
there is a special differential duty of 30 per cent. valorem 
against goods imported into Venezuela from Trinidad. We Ata 
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your Majesty’s Government will be able to se the 
ment of this differential duty- It would dio. te desirable that 
arrangements should be made to store foreign goods in bond in 
Trinidad, which might T be exported t i Ya enezuela. 
present goods which are subject to ad valorem daty pay a duty of 
5 per cent. if landed at Port of Spain, and this duty is not refunded 
on export, and the goods are also subject to the special differential 
duty of 30 per cent. when landed in Venezuela on the ground that 
they are imported from Trinid 
295. In the meantime the Botanic al E in Trinidad 
should encourage the introduction and growth of the better 
descr of fruit, and give instructions as to the best means 
