Report of the West India Royal Commission ...H.M. Stationery Office, 1897 |
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abandoned able acreage tax acres agricultural amount Barbados beet sugar bounty British Guiana cane capital cent Chairman coast cocoa coffee colony Commissioners condition cost of production crop Crown lands cultivation Dargan deal Demerara Demerara River districts dollars drainage drained Duncan duty employment empoldered evidence expenditure expense export factory favourable free coolies gallon Georgetown give given gold industry Government grow imported improved increased indentured immigrants India Jamaica Jones labour large number Luard machinery manure means ment minor industries molasses P-Yes paid plant plantation planters polder Pomeroon river population present produce profit proprietors provisions read the following reduced regard revenue rice river settle Sir David Barbour Sir Edward Grey soil sugar estates sugar industry suppose Surinam taken thing tile drainage timber tion tons United Kingdom villages wages wallaba witness withdrew