Timehri : the journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana . omes a colonist is valuable, but he whowants to retire from the colony is not so satisfactory; this applies to allfor it is not the East Indians alone who wants to go home. There is abreak in the continuity when a Civil Servant retires and does no more forthe colony. We may praise British Guiana, but outsiders will perhaps say, Why then does everybody want to get away? The people who havebeen prominent in colonisation schemes have in many cases retired to liveelsewhere. This was formerly more notorious,


Timehri : the journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana . omes a colonist is valuable, but he whowants to retire from the colony is not so satisfactory; this applies to allfor it is not the East Indians alone who wants to go home. There is abreak in the continuity when a Civil Servant retires and does no more forthe colony. We may praise British Guiana, but outsiders will perhaps say, Why then does everybody want to get away? The people who havebeen prominent in colonisation schemes have in many cases retired to liveelsewhere. This was formerly more notorious, for the object of the oldproprietor was to flaunt in English Society as a Nabob. There should becontinuity of the family even though individuals retire; this is rare,ileal progressive continuity comes through people making homes andraising families ; a man who settles down in a country has a real interestin it for the sake of his children. There has been some progress in thisrespect during late years, but there are many people now in England whomight have been useful as real Group for Fiji in Depot.


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