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her whisky, but in order to protect West Indian rum we nn 
posed a duty on British whisky of 10/6 per gallon. 
deVerteuil might find that an agricultural bank was no a 
panacea for all loss on cocoa and sugar. He had not >een a 
colonist long enough to follow the question out in all its beai ings 
out it appeared to him to be a new way of paying old de s, 
»>dch he had no doubt would bring trade into Frederick street, 
»nd which in the face of a recent circular, a great many officials 
*oold be glad of. (Laughter.) Some people thought it a great 
reproach to Trinidad that vegetables were imported, but 1 11 
“■dad should get her vegetables cheaper from Venezuela, w ly 
dioold she grow them? Now she got vegetables from P ac 
* ere wages were very low, and lie thought Mr. A e " ou 
' (j them that wages were very high here. It was not consisten 
n °rse fresh industries and to nurse sugar in such a way 
require more labour. Take 500 labourers away from the su 0 c 
'states and they would have to replace them by 500 coo lea. • 
**nied to him they were on the horns of a dilemma. 
1(1 cultivation of minor industries was wrong, or lmmigra 
"as wrong. If they had a superfluous population to cu i 
mi °r industries, why bring immigrants from India. 
Professor Carmody said that some of Mr. Russell ® 
•'tperiences should receive attention, but the easiest w ay 
to get his factory into legal condition would be to build _ twenty 
Reuses in its immediate neighbourhood, and as the Ordinance 
not define what a house was, he might build em ' ^ 
^ Hked. Most of them were agreed that 1^ 
, n U ' f 1)6 encouraged in every possible way. - "exchange 
f advantage to get vegetables from other coun ,ls ' p t 
? r 'he goods that we had here, there was no d loubt that the * r 
Sect of every country should be to provide as much tooa 
J7 b l« for its inhabitants. All that was necessary 
'bp Mirers we had at present to work Bi* day 
two, and if they gave them inducements he was 
ey would be quite willing to work, hvety ’ > saw a fair 
®?ro labourer was very willing to worj. ' fficient importance 
^ompense for his labour. He did not think ■ cocoat cu ltiva- 
M attached to tillage in Trinidad. reg< but w ith regard 
° on tl >ere was practically no tillage nec , es f ' ie rience in other 
•' suga,. it must strike everybody who ha -P q{ t ju a g C . Mr. 
' Entries that there was an extraordinary . en that should 
\ e ' 7<ir teuil had explained that at the 1I * 1 manufacturing 
t>e carried on the manager was taken P the approach ot 
'’potations. The proper time for tillage t |, e use of me- 
l l ° dry season. Thev would get more wo. k farffling . There 
Cnatiical appliances. 'There was also a «ai 
