IN BRITISH GUIANA
FARM LANDS AVAILABLE
GEORGETOWN (British Guiana), November 22,
The Governor (Sir Wilfred Jackson) announced today that he will make a statement in the Legislature tomorrow offering to settle refugees in British Guiana. The areas mentioned as most likely to be selected are the north-east district of Essequebo, bordering on Venezuela, and the Rupununi district, 200 miles inland, which was offered three years ago for Assyrian settlement. Essequebo is thickly-wooded hill country, well watered, and with a milder climate than the coast. .The products include citrus fruit, coffee, mica, gold, and bauxite. The Government recently granted Trinidad leaseholders the right to prospect, for petroleum. The population is only one person to the square - mile and the sole communication is the fortnightly river boat. • . . •
Rupununi is mostly broad savannahs, mountains, and dense forests, with the same problem of< transportation, but the climate is even milder. Prospects for farming and cattle raising are considered to be good.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 125, 23 November 1938, Page 11
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