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FIRST LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL SECOND SESSION.
RESOLUTION No, L. WHEREAS the Honourable table on Friday last a document parlous that i.omething condition should immediately of the sugar industry Senior Member for New Amsterdam from the Chambbr of Commerce laid ou the to the relating of the Colony, be done ju the interest of that industry ; and and it appears necessai·y WHEB.EAS the British GoYermnent are desirous and wisely so of protecting the poor aud working man's table in the United Kingdom; and WHEREAS the protection a matter of concern of the poor and working-man's of His Majesty's ministers is equally ; and table of the colonies WHEREAS it would appear that it is desirable Government sugar from the colonies term1 as Home-grown that both these objects grown into the markets of the United Kingdom on the same may be achieved beet by granting duty free entry" : to suggest by admitting to the British British Be it Resolved,-That the neigh�ouring unite in a common cable to the Secretary mission allowed United Kingdom free of Customs duties in oi·der that these saved from extinction be in the markets may be Colonies to earn bread.
and the working-classes thereof to the Chancellor to dispose of their sugar and its by-products of the Exchequer praying that all British be enabled of the West India Islands of State for the Colonies to be invited for trans­ Colonies Passed by the Legislative Council this 18th day of March, 1930.

(M.P.

1379/30), M.B.

LAING, Clerk of the Council.

No.

167.