GROWTH OF BRITISH GUIANA.
"We aim to increase the population of British Guiana to 1,000,000 in the next forty years," said Brigadier-General Sir Gordon Guggisberg, Governor of British Guiana, recently at the Bermudas, on his way for a vacation in England. "British Guiana has enormous agricultural possibilities. Sugar at present is our greatest industry, and we are rapidly becoming a very large rice producing country. In order to increase our production we must resettle our people. We have made progress in laying out modern settlements with houses, gardens and farms complete for the settlement among us of thousands of Hindus from India. We are planning to make agriculture on the islands safe against floods and droughts. We will bring this about by land drainage and irrigation."
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 228, 26 September 1929, Page 31
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126GROWTH OF BRITISH GUIANA. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 228, 26 September 1929, Page 31
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