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546. Barbados and British Guiana have larger populations and 
are no doubt wealthier Colonies, but their prosperity so greatly 
estimate the amount or to say what the expenditure in British 
Guiana in connexion with the immigrants might ves to. In 
Antigua it is almost certain that expenditure must be incurred in 
the relief of distress, and in that island as well as in armeve and 
St. zpw € question of assisting emigration may become one of 
great u 
547. The aoit of emigration is extremely difficult to deal 
with at the present time. The failure of the sugar-cane will 
reduce the demand for serge in all the islands at the very time 
when emigration from some of them will assume special impor- 
tance, nor is it easy to see de what countries outside the limits of 
the West Indies emigration could be successfully directed. The 
pressure of events will stimulate the eri to emigrate, and 
the subsidised steamers will facilitate it by affording a cheap and 
regular means of communication between the different ae 
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themselves. In Trinidad and British Guiana there are large 
Seon of land available for settlement, but under the circum- 
stances that now exist the progress of emigration is not likely to 
be so rapid as to provide for the large section of the West Indian 
population that will be unable to find a living near their homes, 
while the process of emigration will involve much hardship and 
be attended with many difficulties. 
v.—SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS. 
548. ee we beg leave to submit the following summary of 
our conclusio 
a. The ioa deus in the West Indies is in danger of great 
nde de which in some gom es may be equivalent or 
st equivalent to extinct 
b, The depoi of the induses" is due to the competition of 
other sugar producing oracle and in a specia 
the competition of beet sugar produced under a system of 
bounties, It is also affected by hh protective tariffs, and 
the SE. oe of cane sugar, the production of which 
is specially co eee "de the Governments concerned. 
The causes of the 'ssion may be described as permanent, 
inasmuch as they are largely due to the policy of foreign 
countries, and there is no indication that that poliey is 
likely to be abandoned in the immediate future. 
c. It is not due in any considerable degree to extravagance in 
management, to imperfection in the pns s of manufacture, 
or to inadequate supervision conseque 
ship, and the removal of these causes, whoever they exist, 
would not enable it, generally, to be profitably carried on 
