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BRITISH GUIANA SECOND LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL /00 FOURTH SESSION 1960 - 1961 MINUTES of the Proceedings of a Meeting of the Legislative Council of the Colony of British Guiana under the British Guiana (Constitutiori)(Temporary the Chamber Orders in Council, 1953 and 1956, held in of the Legislature at the Public Buildings, Georgetown, Demerara, Provisions) AT_ 2.00 P.M. on THURSDAY, 5TH JA1WARY, 1961.

His Honour the Speaker, Sir Donald.Jackson.


PRESENT: Ex-Officio Members The Honourable The Honourable The Honourable the the Chief Secretary, Mr. D.M.

Hedges.

the Attorney-Gen eral, Mr. A.MoI.

Austin, Q.C.

Financial Secretary, Mr. W.P.

D'Andrade.

Ministers The Honourable Minister Dr. C.B.

Jagan, of Trade and Industry.

The Honourable B.H.

Bemi, Minister of Natural.Resources.

The Honourable Janet Jagan, Minister of Labour, Health and Housing.
The Honourable Ram Karran, Minister The Honourable Minister B.S.

Rai, of Communications and Works.

of Community Developmen-t and Education.

Elected Members, Majority Party Mr. S .M.

Saffee Mr. Ajodha Singh Other Elected Members Mr• L. F. S .

·Burnham, Q • C • Mr. S. Campbell Mr. A.L.

Jackson Mr. Jai Narine Singh Mr. E�B.

Beharry Mr. F. Bowman Members Nominated Mr. R.C.

Tello Mr. R.E.

Davis Mr. H.J.M.

Hubbard Clerk of the Legislature -Mr.

I. Crum Ewing.
I. Crum Ewing.

Assistant Clerk of the Legislature -Mr. E.V.

Viapree.

Absent: Mr. W.O.R.

Kendall -indisposed.

Mr. R.B.

Gajraj.

Mr. AoM.

Fredericks -on leave.

Mr. A.G. Tasker, O.B.E.

- on leave.

The Clerk read prayers.

2.

CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES The Minutes of the Meeting held on ,�_rednesda.y, the 4th of January, 1961, as printed and circulated, were taken as read and confirmed.

ANNOUNCEMENTS Leave The Speaker announced that Mr. W.O.R.
Kend�ll was indisposed and had asked to be excused from t�t sitting.

ORAL ASKING AND ANSWERING OF QUESTIONS Question No.

5 Mr.
5 Mr.

Bowman asked the Minister of Community Developme nt and Education the following question: QUESTION: Development of Community Will the Minister Education tell this Council how much money, if any, was spent by Government Development and Welfare grants for building and repairing schools in the Colony, from the time the Colony started to receive Colonial and Welfare grants, and how much the revenue of the Colony for the s�me purpose over the same period?
from C9lonial and Development wa� spent from The Minister reply: the following of Community Development and Education gave ANSWER: The sum of �1,668,424.36 was spent from Colonial and Welfare funds during the period Development 1945-1959 of primary schools.
for the building During the same period the Government spent out of local funds the sum of 02,019,784.41 for the build­ ing and figure does not include the amount sp�nt by tbe Government out of local funds for the .maintenance of Government-own maintenance of PriIIBry Schools, This latter ed and Government-controlled schools.

PUBLIC BUSINESS ORDER OF THE DAY MOTION Item 1 -MOTION CONCERNING APPROVAL OF DEVELOPMENT ESTIMATES F"OR 1961.
Mr. Tello resumed and concluded his speech on the follow­ ing mot ion: BE IT RESOLVED: Expenditure That this Council approves of tbe Estimates of for the year 1961 which rave in the Rep ort Committee of the Legislative Council Development been laid on the Table and recommended of the Finance dated 23rd December, 1960, totalling TWENTY-THREE MILLION, .. }lIN.E .IDJNDRE-D·-AND THOUSAl-ill, FOUR HUNDRED AND ONE DOLLARS as detailed by Heads in the undermentioned SCHEDULE and of the projects therein being financed from the Development Fund Fund Ordinance, 1954. established under the EIGHTY-EIGHT Development .
.

I SC.HEDUJE 3.

SCHEDULE /o,;1 Estimate in 1961 $ 1,346,276 314,000 6,046,550 1,032,638 1,250,000 517;133 426,000 1,000,000 160,000 Head.

No .. Head of Estimate and Credits Agriculture Civil Aviation Indul:ltry Geological Surveys I. II.· III.

Drainage and Irrigation IV.

Education v. VI.

VII.

·Health VIII.Housing IX.

x. XI.

XI!.

Public Works XIIIe1 Transport XIV.

Miscellaneous xv.

xvI., Social Welfare XVII.Local Government XVIII.Amerindian XIX.

Tourism xx.

Electricity XXI.


Forests Rural Self Help Lands and Mines Land Development 1;242.474 Post Office 1,050,000 5,683,720 and Harbour:s 2,141,000 61,510 100,000 175,000 150,000 45,000 Development2·47 ,ooo Development1,000,000 100 �23,988,401 Mr. Jackson, Mr. Beharry and Mr. Campbell spoke to the motion.

Mr. Burnham was speaking when the hour of adjournment was reached.
Night Sitting The Chief Secretary stated that in order to complete consideration of the 1961 Draft Development might be necessary the 6th of January.

for Council to sit at night on Friday, Estirrates, it ADJ OURNIYIENT At 5.01 p.m. the Speaker a djourned the Council to 2.00 p .m.

on Friday, the 6th of January, 1961.

Confirmed, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, Georgetown.

6th January, 1961.