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TRINIDAD : THEN AND NOW. 



Match Making is also a comparatively new indus- 

 try ; it gives a limited employment but is sadly han- 

 dicapped by having to compete with matches import- 

 ed free of duty. Soap making ds carried on in the 

 same establishment. 



The Tannery is not a very large industry, but as 

 it uses up the hides of the animals killed in Trinidad 

 and supplies a good deal of leather used for various 

 purposes in Trinidad it is deserving of notice. 



Now comes the last, but by no means the least, of 

 this colony's new industries — because it is a new 

 industry as delineated — I allude to the art of 

 Electric Printing and Linotyping. When I came to 

 Trinidad, I am of the opinion that neither were 

 heard of in any part of the world, and so much 

 is Trinidad up-to-date that we now have both. 

 If I wanted an argument to illustrate my mean- 

 ing, I could not find a better one than is evidenced 

 by the printing of this book which you, my gentle 

 reader, are now perusing. The press on which it is 

 printed is run by electric power, and the textual 

 matter is linotyped. Is it not a fair illustration of 

 what can now be turned out in Trinidad ? The bind- 

 ing is also done in the same establishment and, 

 although it may not be compared with the best in 

 England yet it compares favourably with such work 

 even in Great Britain, and both tend to show the vast 

 difference there is in this respect between the Trini- 

 dad of Then and the Trinidad of Now. 



