BRITISH GUIANA

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20717, 30 January 1939, Page 14

BRITISH GUIANA

PROPOSED JEWISH OOLONY NO EL DORADO (Times Alp Mall Service) LONDON, Deoember 24 The brave new world of Walter Raleigh—he called It “El Dorado”— Is British Guiana, where the Prime Minister, Mr Chamberlain, suggested settling thousands of Germany’s unwanted Jews. The colony is undeveloped, sweltering hot, but fertile, says Cavaloade. In the opinion of Sir Wilfred E. F. Jackson, an expert on West Indian potentialities: “The day must come when British Guiana, its development fully accomplished, will And its place wiiliin lhe Eniuire.”

Said Sir ’V. Jackson recently: “For- # tunes wait the conqueror and exploiter of this new world.” British Guiana Is, in area, 90,000 square miles, of which 77,000 is forest, another 7500 undeveloped. Only 180,000 acres are under cultivation. Of these, more than one-third are

devoiea to sugar-cane, which means £400,000 of sugar annually to Britain. Gold, bauxite (aluminium ore) are the only other important products. The population of 333,000 includes 130,000 Indians.

Although much of the land is below sea level colony is healthy for Europeans, due to a oooling sea-breeze known locally as “The Doctor.”

The natural resources, besides goM and bauxite, include diamond (knocked on the head by price declines), platinum, palladium, merouride, silver, copper, graphite, zircon, kaolin, mica. Coffee-growing test.have been successful, limes flourish, and coconuts and rubber could be grown.