BUSY BARBADOES
■ ■: —♦ TINY, BUT IMPERIAL Interesting .facts about tjic Island of Barbadoes, intensely patriotic and Imperial, and with a picturesque past, weec given the Wellington Chamber of Commerce at'its luncheon to-day by Mr. S. T.: Harrison, C.M.G., 0.8. E., Collector of Customs there. Mr. C. M. Bowden presided. Though tropical enough to grow sugar, which constituted the chief industry, Barbadoes -was free of malaria, and was so healthy that it was a favourite health resort for- the people of both Americas, as well as from many other lands with a severe winter. The first white settlers were largely British Royalists, an expedition of whom was sent, out by Charles 1., augmented by refugees during the Cromwellian period. There was a large negro.population, largely a relic of the old slavo days, but both peoples were now taught in the same schools, which were of a very high standard, including Codrington College, founded by General Codrington, who diod in 1710, and now conducted by trustees.
With 156,000 people within its 100 squaro miles, Barbadoes was intensely cultivated, and all traces of Hie original tropical vegetation had' disappeared. It. was a popular coaling port, and the volumo of shipping was astounding. It was also a port of registration, and quite a number of Canadian vessels were registered thpre. Barbadoes, snid the speaker, gave .a preference to goods from any part of the British Empire of 50 per cent. Formerly a preference of 20 per cent, was given to Canadian produce, but now all imports from whatever part of the Empire received a preference of 50 per cent. Imports .totalled £2,480,320, of which '32 per cent, were from tho QJd Country, 38 per cent, from other parts of the Empire, including a good dc»l of produce from Canada, and 30 per cent.' only were from foreign countries; of £1,259,000 of exports, 13 per ,00111. to the Old Country, 75 per cent, to other British possessions, and 12 per cent, to foreign nations. " «
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 113, 16 May 1927, Page 10
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