if 
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of Em adopted. Such a change would involve the 
starting o e factories, for which one or two places in the 
Colony are em unsuited. But there is no prospect of any such 
improvements being carried out by private jaraai and we 
hesitate to recommend that the State should find the money. for 
what must in the case of this Colony be regarded as a very 
doubtful experiment. 
373. In view of the approaching extinction of the sugar industry 
in St. Vincent, and of the fact that there is no prospect of private 
enterprise establishing other aistros on a sufficiently large scale 
to afford employment to the labouring classes, the problem of 
providing for these ee becomes one of extreme urgency, and 
is beset with difficultie 
374. We have qer made a general recommendation that 
the settlement of the Creole population of the West Indies as 
cultivating proprietors should be eta een as settled policy 
of the Government of the different Colon , and we see no 
reason to depart from that ati in the "id of St. Vincent. 
On the contrary, it seems to us that, whether the sugar industry 
is maintained or disappears, it is abs olutely essential in the 
prosperity in St. "Vin 
377. There are round the sea-coast ined = acres of fertile 
remain sọ olders —- somes lands at o be unwilling 
to sell them in small a reasonable price, and vis 
unable to cultivate itt pese à e circumstances, we have 
hesitation in recommending that araire portions of these janide 
be acquired by the State made available for settlement in 
small plots. If gms lands cannot be obtained by private 
agreement with the owners, powers should be taken by the 
Government to E En them on payment of reasonable com- 
pensation. The condition of St. Vincent is so critical as to justify 
the adoption of prompt and drastic measures of reform. 
monopoly of the most accessible and fertile lands by a few 
persons who are unable any longer to make a beneficial use of 
them cannot, in the general interests of the „sland, be tolerated, 
379. Another measure which gi er ales is an attempt to 
establish a fruit trade with New York, such, though on a smaller 
scale, as that which has RAT such benefit to Jamaica. In 
ey c un. 
takes to put at least 2,000 acres under bana cultivation. lt is, 
e an agreemen nt to this effect when they understand that 
proper gend of communication may be depended upon for at 
least ten ye 
Vai likely that, at least iu St. Vincent, a con- 
As 
hb siderable Pie for the relief of distress would have to be borne 
