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• 1173 '~Members LEGISLA'l'IVE COUNCIL Present 117 4 LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL·· :~ ~ (Constituted under the British Guiana (Constitution) (Teniporary Provisions) Order in Council, 1959) The Hon.

R. B. Gajraj.

The Hon.

R. C. Tello.

Deputy SpeaJcer:- Mr. W. J. Raatgever, C.B.E.

Nominated Officirtls:- TUESDAY, 2ND NOVEMBER, 1954.

M.r.

W. T. Lord, I.S.O.

~ Mr. J. I. Ramphal.


The Councill met · at 11.15 a.m. His Honour the Speaker, Sir Eustace Wool ford, 0.B.E., Q.C., in the Chair.

Norninated Unofficials : Mr. T. Lee.

PRES:f!

;NT I:Iis Honour the Speaker, Sir Eustace Gordon Woolford, O.B.E., Q.C.

Ex-Officio Members:- The Hon._ the Chief Secretary, i\'lr.

F. D. Jakeway, O .B.E.

(acting) .

, The fron.

the Attorne:y General i\'Ir.

F. W. Holder, Q.C.

The Hon.

the Financial Secretary, Mr. W. 0.

Fraser, O.B.E.


N orninated Members of E xecutive Council:- The Hon.

Sir Frank McDavid, C.M.G., C.B.E.

(Member for Agricul tur e')," Forests, Lands and Mines).

The Hon.

P. A. Cummings (l\'ler!l ber for Labour, Health and Housing).

The Hon.

W. 0.

R. Kendall (Mem• ber for Communications and Works).

The Hon.

G. A. C. Farnum, O.B.E.

( Member for Local Government, Social Welfare and Co~operative Develop ment) .

Mr. W. A. Phang.

Mr. L. A. Luckhoo, Q.C.


Mr. W. A. Macnie, C.l\'I.G., O.B.E Mr. C. A. Carter.

Mr. E. F. Correia.

Rev.

D. C. J. Bobb.

Mr. H. Rahaman.

Miss Gertrude H. Collins.

Mrs. Esther E. Dey.

Dr. H. A. Fraser.

Lt. Col. E. J. Haywood, M.B.E., T.0 Mr. Sugrim Singh.

Clerk of the Legislature- 1\'.Ir.

I. Crum Ewing.

Assistant Clerk ,of the Legislature- Mr. E. V. Viapree (acting) .

Absent:- The Hon.

G. H. Smellie-on leave.

Mr. R. B. Jailal-on leave.

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Co111,m-ission's Revl.

2ND NOVEMBER, 1954 -·Governor's A ddress 1176 Prayers were read by .

the Most Reverend Dr. Alan John Knight, C.M.G., Archbisihop of the West In c.:ies.

Mirrutes of the meeting of th,3 Go,uncil heud on Friday, 0:ctolber 15, 19,54, as printed and circulated, were taken ,is read a.nd confirmed.
REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS B. G. CONSTITUTIONAL COMil1ISSION REPORT The Chi.ef Secretary: W ith your permission, Sir, I desire to take this opportunity to lay on t1ie Ta.ble the Re po1-t of the British Guiana Constitutionnl Commission of 1954, copies of which will be made availaJble to hon.

Members immediately after H is Excellency's Ad· ciress.

to witness Mr. Speaker: I shall vacate the Chair fo1r ,a short interval in or der to l'eceive His Excellency the Governor.
It may be that some members of the a udience would the like military ceremony whi lst the Governo1· inspects the Guard of Honour.

That being so, I hope they will make it con venient to be in their places when His Excellency enters this Chamber.

Hon.

Members also may leave their seats.

They know their duty and so I will not rem ind them.

r,H lhis stage the Sveaker left the Charnbe,·, accom,panied by The Most Reverenrl the Archbishop of the Wesl Ind-ies, the Hon.
the Cldef Ju,st-ice and the Members of the E xecntive Council, to -meet.

His E;1:cellency the Governor, Sir Alfred ,<:{a1.

; aqe, JC.C.M.G.l GOVERNOR'S ADDRESS.

Chamber and addressed the gathering as follows :- Mr. Speaker .

My Lords, Honour able Members, Members of t he Legislative Council, and people of Br itish Guiana.
The Report of the Brit ish Guiana Constitution Commission, 1954- or the Robertson Commission as it has come to be kno:wn~is being released · today both in London and in Geoi•getorwn, and at about this time i n London t he Right Honourable the Secretary of State for.
the Colonies is making a Statement t,o the House of Commons on t he Re,porL that I It is a:p,p,ropriate, should address the L egislative Council simultaneously :~n d t hat I should t alrn this opportunity, with the co ncurrence of H is Honour the Speaker, to have these proceedings b roadcast the people of British Gubna and overseas.

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Let me fi rst read the main conclusions of the Commission:- "We are satisfied that the setback t o orderly const itutional pr ogress in British to defec,ts.

in the Guiana was due n ot Const it ution but t o the fact rcli.a•t those in, control of the P eople's Progressive Party proved themselves to be reien1ffess an dl t o unscrupul ous their determination to pervert the authority cf Government their own disruptive and undem.oc;r atic ends.
in "We ar e, therefore, driven to the con clusion that so long as -the P.P.P.

re;tains its present leadersh ip an d policies, there is no way in which any r eal measure of responsible government can be restored wit hout the certainty that the country will a-gain be subjected- t o constitut ional crisis.

economy, its precarious "We have no dou bt that British Guiana, cannot: w ith the kind tha.o, afford an other crisis of developed in 1953 an d we can, therefore,.
to r ecommend· a~ see no alternative bu t period of mark ing time in the advan ce.

towards self governmen t. His Excellency, accompanied by the t)Je Speaker, entered His Hon.

"We cannot estim at e t he.

llength of the t he period which should elapse before advance t owards self government is re~ :;c ...,t.-l ,«;;,,)¥...:~;.~ .· ·r· • ... ....

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LEGISLATlVE C OUNCIL -Governor's Addre~s 1178 S\lll:led.
Eyerything will d epend upon the extent to which the people of British Guiana, including the leaders of the P.P.P.

the themselve~, realisation that the futile and deliberately disruptive policies for which the P.P.P.

at present stands are no basis for the fut ure constitutional progress of their country ... · can be brought to STATEMENT lN H OUSE OF COMMONS Next I shail read the Statement ot in the the Secretary of.

State made House.

of Commons:- "Tht • Report of the British Guiana Cons .
.itutional Commission ha;; been :J)U t<Jday as a Command Paper.

My blished Right Honourable F1·iend, the Mini.ste~· of State, has discussed it with the Gov ernor during his recent visit to British Guiana.

and H. M, Government accept the conclusions .

of ;tJhe Report.

Honourable Members will wish to study it and I will not therefore go into detail now.

Briefly, .

their conclusions amply justify the action taken by H.M. Govcernment last October.
They state that t he breakdown was not due to defects in the Consti.tution but to the activities of People's Progressive Party.

They recom mend that there is at present no alterna tive to a period of marking time in con stitution.al matters.

They do not recom mend a specific period nor do H.M. Gov ernment wish to be tied to one.
H.M. Government however consider it desirable to set some maximum term ,to the per sonal appointment o-f the present Members of Legislative Council without prejudice to when it may be possible to hold elec tions again.

The present appointm.ents wiH therefore run for four yea rs from January 1s t, 1954. in control of those '·'During the period of this Interim Gov ~ intention to d10 ernment it is our firm every,thing possible to fit the Colony for a return to representative government.
In particular there will be a thorough r eform arid extension of local government in stitutions.

members, Sir Donald Jackson, Chief Justice of the Windward Islands and iLJle Leeward Islands, and Mr. Woodcock,, f.s-· sistant General Secretary of the T.U.C,'' That is the end of the Statement of the Secretary of State.

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As the Com~ I have said, mission's Report is ,being released today in Georgeto1,vn, ,but arrangements ,have been made for copies to 1be distribt1ted as quickly as possible to all rpa1-ts of th~ It is my intention that the country.
Report should have a very wide circula tion, so that as many people as poss,ible will have the opportunity to read and study for themselves the findings of th is independent Commission in respect of the events of the period between the Report of the Waddington Commission in 1\)51 -and the decision to s uspend the Constitution in October, 1953.

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As I have said, you will read and study these findings for yourselves, but I s hall briefly refer to them h ere_ After a most careful and pains•taking examination of all the relevant material the Commission have found that it had become necessary in October, 1953, to r esolve t he impossible position which had developed in the Executive Councii, to put an end to the general anxiety and uncertainty in the Colony and to remov':!

trouble.
trouble.

the distinct danger of re-al They have found that at that t ime th,~ fear of violence was real enough, t hat the Executive Council had come no wher e near to fulfilling its constitutional role and that there was no option but to suspend the Constitution if there was no other certain way of resolvinJ the situation.

Members will no · doubt wish to q ues the tion me when Report.

I would the like warm thanks of H.M. Government to Sir James Robertson, formerly Civil Secre tary of the Sudan.
who was C h airman of they have studied to express the Commission and to the other two 5.

The Commission have found that ther e was nothing su1bstantially or inherently wrong with the Constitution which •has had to he sLrnpended -and that the set-back to orderly constitutional p r ogress which resulted was du-e, not to defects in that Constitution, but to the: ' l. t· -~-- .. t 1 !

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Commission's Rept.


2ND NOVEMBER, 1954 -Governor's Address 1180 [His Excellency] fact that those in control of the P.P.P.

proved themselves to be relentless ancl unscrupulous in their determination tu pervert the authority of Gover.nment to their own disruptive and undemocratic ends.

They concluded that foUJr of the seven principal officers of the P.P.P.
and about half of the members of the Party Exeeiutive Committee iwere Com munists and that these people had been restr,ained iby expediency xather than by ,principle from £forming and leading openly a Communist pa.rty.
The Report states: "They had decided on balance that they could more speedily achieve \their most important and immediate objectiv~s ~that of ridding British Guiana of Br~tish rule and influence-by remaining as sociated with others who had a similar objective in a party with a wide popular appeaL._They did not believe that self government for British Guiana could be earned in successive steps by rev.ealed capacity for responsible Government.
On the contrary, they :believed that a depend ent te1Titory can normally ex,pect to win self-government only by violent action little short of revolution .... We are con vinced t:hat from the moment the P.P.P.
secured its majority it was at most only a question of time before these people made a concerted effort to get the Party em.barked on a course of action which was deHberately intended to lead to a serious constitutional crisis as a means of forcing the British Government to capitulate to the demands o.f the P.P.P.''

These findings have led the Com mission to the conclusion that so 1011g as the present leadership and policies of the P.P.P.

continue, there is no way in which any real measure of sel'.'
government can be restored without the certainty that the country.

will agatin be subj ected to constitutional crisis.

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In ,passing may I point out that only last Saturday Party statements made clearly emphasize that the attitude of leaders of the Party toiwards th ,~ Constitution has in no way altered, and that they continue to be determined, if allowed, to inv,ite rather than to avoid a constitutional crisis if they conceive such a crisis to be necessary to enable them their objective of immediate self~g:overnment.
to obt ain 7. , The Commission have no doul,'; that British Gmana, wjth its precarious economy, cannot afford another cr.isis of the kind that developed in 1953, and have, therefore, in all t he circumstances of the present situation, recommended a per.iod -of marking time in the advance to,wards self-government.
The Report regarding makes cer.ta·in sug,gestions modifications in t he susipended Con stitution to be considered at some future date, and comments on a numbe-r of sub- \ sidiary constitutional matters affecting ministerial conduct, the Jud.iciary and the Public Serv.ice.

The Report proposes that adult suffrage should be main tained, and also miakes certain recom mendat.ions about the electoral system, including a proposal to set up an Elec toral Commission.

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The Commission have found it impossible to estimate at this stage the Ieng.th of ,period which should elapse 1before the advance towards self g·overnment is resumed .. Everything, in their view, will depend upon the extent to which the people of British Guiana I repeat, the people of British Guiana, ir.clud,ing the leaders of the P .P.P.

them selves, can be brought to realize that the futile and deliberately disrwptive policies for which the P.P.P.
at ,present stands are no basis for the future con stitutional progress of the Colony.

Her Majesty's Government have nevertheless considered it desiraJble that a maximum term should be set to the persona!

apporintment of the present Members of the Legislative Council though, as was stated by the Secretar.,· of State, the fixing of this perio¢1 will be without prejudice to the time when it may be .possible to hold elections •again.

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At this sta,ge let me emphasize, an d it cannot be over erµ-phasized, what li81 Con.

Com:mission' s R epi.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL -Govenwr's Acldre.~·s 118:.l has been stated by the Commission that the extremist leaders of the P.P.P.

and the policies for which tthey stand are the sole iharriers to constitution:-:.!

prngress.

This clearly is a challenge to tl,e people of British Guiana.
It is the duty now -of ,public opinion, enlig.htenecl by recent experiences -and s.timulatecl by the resolve to remove the barriers that stand in the way of constitutional progress, to re.

'.lounce such policies .and It is a all those who advoca.te them.

tirme for moral courage and firm deter the mination, as nothing future of democratic principles and institutions in British Guiana is a• stake.
than less 10. the meantime everything In possihle will be clone to pr,epare the Colony for a return to elections and representative government.

The creation of a healthy political environment is perhaps the most impor.tant safeguard 0£ free and democratic institutions and much may •be done towards this e:1<1 throu,gh the reform and extension .

of the Local Government system of th() Colony.


The Report states : · •· ...... We do not think ,that local govern ment bodies play an important part in the affairs of British Guiana and indeed we are not convinced that in local affairs the village and country district councils were popular or influential amongst the people .....

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It goes on tc say: " ......

The whole scope of local govern to be very therefore.

appears ment, limited .....

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Accordingly is proposed to it appoint a Commissioner of higih stand ing and .

experience to report to the Government on the reform and ex .. tension of the local govei-nment system.

With a new -and reformed local govern ment it will no doubt be possi,ble to pro vide a very large measure of political training through Local Councils for the more important field of central gover11- ment.
For that reason I have ::lecided that elections to the New Amsterdam TolWltl Council should continue to be postponed as they were in 1953, and that elections to the Geo-1·.getown Town Council-which were not due to be held in 1953-should now ~e similarly post poned.

A Bill seeking to give ef£ect to this decision will be introduced shortly I do not in the Legislative Council.
propose, how.ever, that there should be any rperiodic Mayoral elections, and these will be held from time to time in the usual mann-,r.

interference with the 11.

The Robertson Corrunissiuri did not deal with events subsequent to the decision to sus,pend t:he Constitutio1:, but those of us living in this country have not forgotten the acts of violence, of sabo.tag.e and of sacrilege committed earlier this year; such evil deeds, y-ou will realise, confirm and emphasize the findings of the Commission.
Such con duct has been destructive iboth in spirit and in character; yet there has been much constructive progress during the ten months of the Interim Govern ment's existence.

It took over the rein,; of Government at a most difficult and trying period in the affairs of thi~ country; it was a t ime of s,train · and evident tension within the Colony itself, while abroad its credit and good name had already become suspect.
In addition to all this a pernicious and sustained campaign of slander and propaganda endeavoured to d1is-crediit and frustrate the best efforts of the new Govern· In spite of this propaganda and ment.

violence, tension has diminished to somP, extent, and ,confidence in the stabi1it~• of Government is being gradually restored.

There are si,gns.
There are si,gns.

that rpeople arP prepared to give this Goveiinment an opportunity to carry out its programme of economic: .and socia;l development: and it is a matter of satisfaction that persons have returned to the Savings Bank the deposits withdrawn last year.

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C01n1nission;s Rept.

2ND 'NOVEMBER, rn,54 -Gover"noris Address 1184 [His Excellency j Already, much of the extremist propa ganda has been shown to be untruthful, and it,s repeated calls for non-co-opera tion remain unanswered.
,I firmly be li~ve that the :people of this country are realis.ing more and more as the days go ;by, .the tragic mistakes of 1953 and the opportunities for progress which were thrown away by reckless politicians entrnsted in all good faith with the powers of government.

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1·e lations, the very foundations of any society, have improved, but there is so much to be done and often undone both by individuals and racial groups.
The new Regional Development Committees introduced ih every part .of the country, l1ave stimulated an interest in economic development hitherto and the res,pon.s.e of the .people to self-help in many and co-operative schemes parts of the country has ibeen most gratifying.
These things iindicate to me, and I am sure to you who are listening, th~t' the thinking of some people has undergone some change in the last ten !Illonths--and the credit for this is largely due to the efforts of the present Government and to the loyalty an.d in dustry of the PubJic Service.

-unknown, that t his year overseas fo1,ward to an acceleration in the pro gress towards full implementation .

of our Development Plan.


Here, I must again remind Y.OU that ( in the wor'di of the World Bank Mission), "thG ability of the economy to sustain a cone tinued ,growth and expansion wiU, how, ever, depend on the extent to whicl\ It rprivate investment :is maintained".

'is ,fair to say that overseas confidenca in British Guiana is 1being restored, and indus• trialists have been showing a strong i,1terest in this country, particularly in the :field of development of mineral resources.
We can, for example, count on an expansion of i~ bauxite mining and substantial new in vestment initiation of under takings to mine for manganese, colum b-ite and tantalite.

In the f.ield of agri cL1lture, private interests, working 'in colla,boration with the Government, ha,ye successfully completed the first stage of ex'Perimental cuJtivation and production of jute in this country.
I should also mention the interesting ex perimental scheme which is about to begin on one of the sugar estates in the cultivation of sugar cane by individual cane farmers on a basis of partnership with the proprietors.

investment the in 12.

A few days ago the Develop ment Secretary .pu:blished a progress rE:'por:t on the Development P.lan to the It has given some 30th September.
satisfaction although progress has not been as .rap·id as had b.een hoped, but you will recall that final approval was not obtained until May.
Preparatory work, including investigations and re ports iby many visiting experts, the establishment of the Credit Corpora tion, the setting u,p and organising of the new Departments of Housing, Land Settlement and Draina,ge and Irriga tion all required much time and study, but practical results are becoming in creasingly evident ,all over the country, and people are seei.p..g and realising for themselves the benefits to be derived now and in the future.

We can look 13.
We can look 13.

An urgent need, of course, ,is the ,provision of more cultivable land for small farmers and (as t he Com mission say in paragraph 21 of the.if repoi<t) for the establishment of a class of peasant proprietors with the feeling of having a real stake in the country.

The major land redamation and water control schemes in progress in Berbice and West Demerara are th~ most im portant means by which the· need {or more cultivable land will be met.
Quicker' restilts should, h·owever, be obtained by imP'rovin-g and bringin,g into use the many scattered areas of land in the rear of existing estates and' on t he river banks, which· are not 1being bene fically occupied, and it will be 't1w· function of the new Land iS'ettlement Department to pursue this O'bjective as 1185 Con.

Cornrnission's R ept.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL -Governor's Address 1186 I also hope that rapidly as poss,ible.
the Land Tenure Committee which has been set up w ill be able to find a solution of t h e diff icult p ro·blem of the r ights of t h e large safeguarding number of persons in beneficial occup:1- tion of ag1·icultural land, but who, for various r eason~, are without proper legal tit les.

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But all is not lovely in thi8 I am cer ga rden of British Gu ia na.

I t ainly not complacent.


am well awar e that the extremist elements a;:e endeavou ring in devious ways to main tain t heir posit ion and to undermine confidence in Government, and to ipro mote dis r uption and discord among th~ I realise also people of t his country.

tl'.at they h ave t he physical suppoit of z. section of t h e party who are like minded.
I want it to 1be clearly under stood that a ny conduct w hich is sub "ers ive to the maintenance of good government will continue to be dealt · V.'ith promptly and fi rmly.

situation As I h ave said before, there is an immense j ob of work to be done by everybody.

The demands ciear t hinking, si ncerity of purpose anc1 It n eeds primaril:v consta nt effort.

close personal contact w it h t h e p eople.


Government officers, politicians, em ployer s, trade 1.mion leaders and lasl; but b y n o m eans least Christian, Hindu and Mohammeda n priests and clergy must go out to the people :md not wait for t h e people to come to them.

Although the political extremist will in ti1me be r ejected b y the people of the country.

there is a r eal danger that their places may b e t aken by other extr emist;; nominated by racial prejudices.
May I s ay in all frankness and friendliness to t he two n um erically stron,gest races in the people of this count ry, n amely, Africa n a nd E ast Indian descent, that if you allow yourselves to be guided by racial extremists it will b ring n ot hing but sorrow to yourselves, to your child r en an d to your country.

As I have moved about Guiana I have met many mixed groups living in complete ,har mony, and there are both M r ican and East Indian leaders who work together for the common good.
The country needs many more leaders of this kind.

We must build on friendship and tolerance and not on hatred and malice.

J must add I believe that minority grou'PS could do more to help by avoid iug racial discrimination in its many i,spects.

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Another matter which has ~aused me grave concern is the position of the trade union movement in t his country.
On this question it would be appropriate for me to quote briefly from the Commission's Report : " The trade union movement has been too much used by would-be politicians as a means for obtaining power.

and not as a way of improving the conditions of too many president s and officials labour.

; of trade unions even today are mere politicians : many of them are not and never have been "workers.''
for "We believe that if trade unionism in British Guiana is to climb out of the rut in which it now finds itseH two things are 1, eeded; firstly.

to develop a healthy mistru~t of the motives behind the patronage of personally am for bitious politicians, union executives to pursue their indus trial objectives by industrial and not by political means.''

tradE unionists secon dly.

and You will recall the first speech I made on my arrival in this country.
It was a · plea for labour and capital to come closer together.

T hey neea each ether.

During last year industr ial re lations reached a very low e'bb, and :::]though they have since shown some improvement there is yet so much to be done.

Unless steps are taken, and h:ken by the members of the Unions to place the trade union themselves, movement on a sound basis.

it may be impossible to achieve that b etter unde!· stancling which is fln v'tal t o the true interest:- of t his countr)'.
At the same time I would urge on all employers the j ~ 1187 Con, Co11111iission's Rept.

2ND NOVEMBER, rn54 - Governor's Add1ess 1188 [His Excellency] their urgent necessity efforts in promoting the closest re• iations possible with representatives of employees.

· redouble to 16.

You will already have gathered from the stn tement of the Secretary of State that the Members of the Exec utive and Legislative Councils will con tinue in office.
and these Councils will continue to be the peace, order and good government of the Colony.

You will rec,all also that the personal appointments of these Members are to run for a maximum period of four the · hr .January, 195'1-thnt is, terminating not l:,ter than 3fat December, 1957. resrpons·ible for .vears from 17.

You all know that I am most fJ.nxious for thfa country to return to normal conditions as soon as possible.
It will be the task of t his Government to create the conditions in which thP interrupted constitutional progress to war ds self-_govern111P.nt can be resumeq.

The emphasis for thP time being must be on sound administn1 tion and th,, implementation of the nrogramme o~ Rocial anrl -economic development which las alreadv been commenced.

T hopP.

t hat it wi11 •b<?

possiblP for me, in con sultation with m~' advisers.

to relax gradually the restrict.ions which circum stances l1ave compelled mP.
t o imnosi:?

the Emergency Order.

Pro under <'essions and public meetin1ss may then bE allowed su.biect to such controls ai; n.rp neressa1·v in thP.

intere;:ts of law 11nd order.

If thP1'P.

is any 1·P.la:pse, how ever.

into cond1itio11,; of disorder and violence the r e;;triction,s will have to be 1·eimoosed.

which lie ahead, yet I am optimistic for the future.

I have a strong and abiding faith in the people of this country, in their commonsense and their spirit of goodwill.
I feel t.hat the times through which we have 1)assed :rnd are passing, serve but to stren-gthen our resolve that Brit ish Guiana shall advance as ninny other countrie;; have done, along the path of ordererl progress to an honoured place in the Commo'llwealth.

I am su re t h at this faith and this optimism are sh:nPcl by t he people of British Guiana.

With that faith, let 1,~ work harder than ever before.

With that opti'mi;;m let u;; move forward in to the future.

prnctical co-ooeration Then.


under God's guidance, we shali succeed.

Mr. Lee:, Your Excellency.

may I be permitted, on beha.Jf of the Members cf this Council.

to e}OJ)ress to Y-0ur Excellency our deep appreciation and thanks and for your this morning.

On ,;timulatirig add1·~,:s this historic occasion I am sure m y rolleagues would wish me to give to Your Excellency an assunrnce of our in the full es~ eontin ued co-operation measure in the tasks that lie a·head.
inter esting Fina1ly, Sir, I would ask that you <.

;rant permission for your address to 1,e printed and circulated among the Members of the Council .

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His E,1;cellencu then withdrew fro-ni th e Chamber.

There being no further business.

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While, like the Commission, I:,.:.

the Speaker, at 12.20 p.m., adjourned · have 110 illusions as to the difficulties ,;-:: the Council sine die,· '