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expenditure. Failing this, a loan from the 
Government, spread over a lengthened period, 
was advocated. 
(b.) The general expression of opinion was that 
the conveying of canes to an estate nob 
adjacent to a village would be out of the 
question from the point of view of expense. 
The Committee would, however, point out 
that in Trinidad, independent farmers, using 
their own means of transport, such as donkey 
carts, and cart their canes long distances to 
the buying estate selected by them. 
''5. Canes when loaded to be transported by the 
" buyer, time of cutting being subject to mutual 
" arrangement. 
"6. All disputes to be referred to a standing 
'^ authority to be agreed upon for the purpose." 
These were agreed to. 
At the conclusion of the meeting, Mr. Jacobs, of 
Buxton, asked permission to refer to the desirability of 
estates' land being rented out to the farmers for the 
purpose of growing canes. He was allowed to do so, 
but the Committee wish to make it distinctly understood 
that the question was quite foreign to the meeting, 
and not one in which it was taking action. 
The Committee trust that the Directors of the Royal 
Agricultural and Commercial Society will see their way 
to further steps in connection with the important 
subject on which it now reports. 
FREDERIC I. SCARD, 
Chairman. 
