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WEDNESDAY
13tH
OCTOBER
1920.
dering
wood
alive,
The
flavour of
the
fish is
said to be
greatly
improved
and
it
will keep
for
a
few
weeks.
(The
Nassau
Guardian.
Ibid.
The
Times
Jamaica
correspondent
in
the
issue
of
July
20
1920,
says
that
June
witnessed
a
serious
struggle
bhe
tween
the
four
companies
engaged
in
the
banana
trade
in
Jamaica.
It
was
the
biggest
banana
war
the
island
has
ever
seen,
and
it
was
responsible
for
as much
as
ils. 6d.
a bunch
being
paid
in
the
open
inarket,
while
it
ils
said
that
buying
agents
of
some
American
concerns
went
to
the length
of paying
the
cost
of
transport
to
the
shipping
points—a
very
uanusual
practice.
At
the
beginning
of
the
fourth
week
of
June
the
struggie
began
to abate.
The
price
settled
down
in
some
parts
of
the island
to
from
bs.
to
7s.
a bunch.—
Ibid.
The
Government
Sugar
Experiment
Station
on
the
Demerara
East
Coast
was opened
on
June
19,
by His Excel-
lency
the
Governor
of British Guiana
After
the
ceremony,
the
Hon.
.J.
B.
Harrison,
C.
M.
G.
Director
of
Agri-
culture
and
Science,
said
that
the
oc-
casion
marked
a
point
in
the
history
of
the
colony
which
shouid
be
one
of
the
greatest
importance.
It
was
one
in
whieh
the
planters
of
the
colony
had undertaken
to
supporta very
large
Experiment
Station
for
the
purpose
of
improving
their
produce,
and
to
study
better
methods
of cultivation.
Up
to the
present
the
greater
.art of
the
work o producing
new and better
canes
had
been
done
on
a
small
field at
the
top
of
the
Botanic
Gardens.
Os
the
present
area
in the
colony
under
ugar-
cane
cultivation, -80
per
cent,
was
planted
in
canes
raised
in
:hat
little
field.—(The
Demerara
Argosy.—lbid.
down Queen’s Cross
Street
so
LOST Lutheran
Church
on Sunday
the
Brd
inst.,
a
CLOVER
70LD PIN.
Finder
will
be
rewarded
m leaving
same
at this office.
For good appetiteand
good
digestion
use
Dr. Ross’
Life Pills.
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CROIX AVIS
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to this paper will be glad-
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when
the same
deals with mat-
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inmterest,
and is
accompa-
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author’s
name,
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antee
of good faith.
The editor cannot
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dents nor does he necessarily endorse them
The
henna
plant
(Lawsonia
inernis
whieh
is commonly
grown
as
a g arden
shrub
in the West Indies
because
of the
fragrance
of its
flowers,
is
widely cul
tivated
in
the
countries
of
Northern
Africa, according
to note
in L’Agrono-
mie Coloniale, March-April 1920, for
the
sake
of
its
leaves,
which
are
largely
exported
to
France
for
the
extraction
of
a dye chiefly used
in the
preparation
of
hair
dves
in
Paris.
The
inferior
qualities
of
leaves
are
also utilized
for
tanning purposes.
—Agricultural News.
According
to
a
note
in
the
Philipine
Agricultural Review,
1920,
the taro (Col-
ocasia
esculenta)
known
in
the
West
Indies
as
tannia,
eddoe.
dasheen
-was
formerly
the staple
food of the
Hawai-
ijans,
and
it
is
still
an
important
food
plant in Hawaii,
where
no less
than 200
varieties
are
cultivated.
Considering
the
value of
this crop
it
is interesting
to
know
that
experiments
have
begun
in Honolu!u
on the
breeding
of new taro
varieties,
and there
are
now under
ob-
servation
gquite
a
number
of seedlings.
So
far as is known,
this is
the
first
at-
tempt
on
record
in the breeding
of taro.
—lbid.
In
the Caicos
Islands
a few
men
un-
derstand
and
practice
a
simple
method
of
smoking
fish.
The
fish
is
prepared
as for dry saiting,
bu* onlv
the
surface
moisture
is
dried
off;
the
fish
is
then
hung at the aimost
closed
top of a smoke
hox,
about
4
feet by 4 feet
square,
and
6 feet high,
for severai
days
ip a
dense
smoke
producad
from smouldering
palm
stems
Only
sufficient
air
is admitted
at
th.
zround
level to
keep
the
smoul-
9 P
8
for the 3rd Ordinary Meeting of the
Colonial
Council
for
St.
Croix,
MONDAY, October
18, 1920,
at
one
'
o’clock p.
m.
!
1.
Production
of
Copies
of minutes
of
]
the
Municipal
Committee
for
the
i
quarters
ending Jun
and September
!
a.
e
|
2.
Colonial Council Bill No. 49.
!
Introduction
of and
Ist Discussion
on
|
Cnlonial Council Bill No.
49,
Resolu
’
tion
introduced
by Government,
au-
f
thorizing the sale
by auction,
for the
highest
bid in each
case,
of Lot
No.
t
15 East
Street
and Lot No.
36
Fish-
er Street
in
the
town
of Christian-
|
sted.
(3.
Colonial Council Bill No.
50.
|
Introduction
of and
Ist
Discussion
;
on Colonial Council Bill No. 50, Draft
5
of Acditional Money
Bill to the Bud
|
get for the Municipality of St.
Croix
|
for
the fiscal year
ending
June
30,
i
1921, introduced
by Government,
au-
;
thorizing
the
payment
of
Fres.
60,
’
;
000,00 from funds
in
the
Municipal
|
Treasury,
not
otherwise
obligated,
f
to the Telephone
Fund
for the
pur-
!
pose
of effecting
repairs
and
new
in-
;
stallations.
{
4.
Colonial Councii Bill No.
48.
|
Introduction
of and Ist Discussion
on
]
Colonial
Council
Bill No.
48, Draft of
l
Additional Money Bili, to the Budget
|
for the Municipality
of St,
Croix for
;
the fiscal year
ending
June
30,
1921,
]
introduced
by
4th
Appointed
Men-
,
ber
(Blackwood),
Grants
to
Native
|
and Industrial
Brass
Bands
of Chris-
§
tiansted
and Century
Brass
Band
of
Frederiksted.
i
5.
Election
of two
men
to serve
with
;
the Colicctor of Customs
and his
De-
i
puties
in fixing the
expoit
values
of
'
cotton,
rum
and
molasses.
6.
Election of a Jury Commissioner
pur-
suant
to Title V, Chapter
12, Section
4of the Code
of Criminal
Procedure
l
to join the Jury Commissin.
|
7.
Discussion
on
Colonial
Couneil Com-
I
mittee’s
Keport
on
the
Report
of
{
the Congressional
Commission.
|
Colonial
GCouncil
Office.
St.
Crozx,
October
12,
1920.
F. CCBLIE).
Vace-Chairman.