. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 354 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. No\KMm:n 25, 1905. In consequence, shippers entleavonred to send as many bunches as they could by the 'Tagus' and 'Trent' and now also by the 'Orinoco,' because they were fitted with cold-storage chambers. If, however, owing to the fact that the Royal Mail Company was directly interested in the new fruit industry at Trinidad, the steamers came to Barbados with their cool chambers more or less filled, the result woidd be that Barbados fruit would be shut out, and if placed in ordinary hold
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 354 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. No\KMm:n 25, 1905. In consequence, shippers entleavonred to send as many bunches as they could by the 'Tagus' and 'Trent' and now also by the 'Orinoco,' because they were fitted with cold-storage chambers. If, however, owing to the fact that the Royal Mail Company was directly interested in the new fruit industry at Trinidad, the steamers came to Barbados with their cool chambers more or less filled, the result woidd be that Barbados fruit would be shut out, and if placed in ordinary holds the fruit would spoil. The growers had worked up iho industry for three years, they selected and packed the fruit with great care, and they were certain that, with suitable transport acconHno<lation, it would prove a paying one. Failing nn assurance from the Chairman that the company would set apart a definite amount of space for Barbados bananas, they desired to know whether the British West Indian Fruit Co., Ltd., would be prepared to buy the bananas locally, and at what price. In replying, Mr. Uwen Philipps expressed his pleasure at meeting so a gathering ot banana griiweis. He said that the matters that ha<l been laid before him wo\dd receive the consideration that such weighty representations deserved. The space available on the mail steamers for carrying- bananas was limited. It was, theretbre, the company's intention, while utilizing some of the space for fruit from Trinidad and some of the other islands, to aflurd Barbados as large a share as possible. With regai'd to the rumour mentioned by Mr. Clarke that the transatlantic passenger steamers might cease to call at Barbados?, Mr. Philipps assured the deputation that such a matter had never been under consideration. The British West Indian Fruit Co., Ltd., which was a subsidiary company of the Roj'al JIail Steam ]\xcket (_"o., did not intend to limiL its operations to Trinidad
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