JANUARY li , 1957 There is no question of a non-industrial develop- ment going on. This power house is just an acces- sory for the company. It does not make the enter- prise more protitable, sv there is no harm in ask- ing them for more money. 3.55 p.m. But we must draw the line somewhere; and if people in this island haye no prospect of getting cheaper electricity—at least we have not heard that company said anything about that, and if there are no prospects of getting electricity in more houses, L think it is disturbing to find’ that the Governor-in- Executive Committee is prepared to lease land which is the property of the people of Barbados for so little in return. Twenty dollars a month is too little; and it does not represent what I think to be a realis- tic view of the whole matter and if this is the con- dition, as it seems to me, of the terms attaching this grant of land, it is a condition which can be modified and made more realistic. They ought to pay more because it is valuable land they are using, and a valuable stretch of beach during the time they ceeupy it, will be denied some part of the bathing population. With respect to the undertaking which was given by the Company about there being nothing in their view which will disturb the bathers generally, T should only say this: that Government would be well advised to have one of its Departments made responsible for the periodical inspection of that beach, and the periodical testing of the water in the sea around the pipes. That, I think, would be the very least that could be done because it may well be that to the naked eye there may be nothing of which you can complain, but there might be an accumulative process of. pollution which could only be discovered scientifically; and I do not think that Government should leave it to the Company to give the assurance that the water would be alright with- out carrying out periodical inspection. I think it is an inspection which should be done every three mouths, and it cannot be left to them. Mr. Speaker, I should just re-emphasise this. I think some change should be made in shortening the period of the lease, that a much higher scale of remuneration than twenty dollars per month should be the price charged them by the Executive Com- mittee, and that Government itself ought to under- take a periodical inspection of the beach and the water surrounding the pipes to make sure and. to satisfy itself that no great harm, if any at all, is being done. Hon. M. E. COX: I can assure the hon. mem- ber, Mr. Speaker, that every care will be taken to cee that the Company carries out its assurance and see that the water is not polluted because it is a fact that the majority of poor people go there to bathe. Mr. TUDOR: I should like the Minister to say whether he thinks the $240 per annum is reasonable or whether it should not be more. Che question was then put and carried nem. con. CARIBBEAN FARM INSTITUTE Hon. C’ B. TALMA: Mr. Speaker, the next Reso- lution seeks to secure Legisiative approval to the draft agreement which appears Ir the’ schedule thereto. The terms and conditions of this draft agreement in connection with the Hast ern Caribbean Farm Institute contained in the the Addendum to the Resolution. The Addendum sets. out the whole history, of the Eastern Caribbean Farm Institute “provides will see, meeption to date. As honourable members OFFICIAL GAZETTE 245 - ~ SaaS the Eastern Caribbean Farm Institute from its very agricuitural training at intermediate level on tne iueoretical side, ald, ou tle practical side is up to tue standard of the Diploma ot the imperial College ot Lropical Agricuicure, ‘ihe object of the Hastern Uar- ibbean t'arm Institute is to provide a pool of quail tied instructors in the middie grades ot Goveriumené Departments, particularly those concerned with agTi- cuiture and education, and in commercial agriculture. ‘the Addendum further states that with the concur- vence of the Legislature, this Government has. part} vipated in the Scheme and. quotes various messages sent down to the House in 1950, Message No. 30, replies given by the Hon. Legislative Council and the Hon. House of Assembly on each occasion sanc- tioning the formation and establishment of the Hast- ern Caribbean Farm Institute..It will be seen that Barbados’ capital contribution to the cost of this Farm Institute was $20,520 up to now; that is, the eapital cost. Barbados is sharing the capital cost of $20,520, and funds to meet Barbados’ share of re- current costs have been voted from time to time in the Annual Estimates. Hon.. members will in all probability want to know how much Barbados has spent up to now in the cost of running this Hastern Caribbean Farm Institute, I have the figures here. ou can see from your Estimates what is actually vcted, but what is voted and what is actually spent are entirely two different amounts because there are Supplementary estimates which are voted from time to time. To give the actual recurrent costs of running this Eastern Caribbean Farm Institute from its very inception: in 1952—53 it cost this “overnment $1,251.25, that was before it actually zot Into operation; in 1953—54 the actual cost was $2,748.69 ; in 1954—55 the actual cost wag $8,470.01; in 1955—56 the actual cost of recurrent expenditure was $6,955.61, and in this financial year the actual vecurrent, cost or the actual money expended so far up to December this year is $6,632.44. Barbados’ -ontribution is based in a proportionate relationship vhich the number of student places bears to the total uumber of student places at the college; that pro- cortion is the proportion which Barbados pays so far as recurrent costs are concerned. £05 p.m. The funds to meet Barbados’ share of the recur- rent costs have been voted in the Annual Estimates from time to time, and these contributions have been yased on the proportionate cost of the number of student-places occupied. In other words, Barbados bas four student places at present, and there are jourteen student places so that Barbados’ share is about 10%. The Government has guaranteed, sub- gect. to our minimum contribution, at least four student places. The Institute is being expanded, as the Addendum to the Resolution further sets out, and with that expansion, it will accommodate sixty stu- dents instead of forty. The Addendum further ex- plains that this Institute is now in the process of expansion to accommodate sixty students, and this will enable the cost of the student’s places to be maintained. despite the rising cost of living. Originally, British Guiana did not seem fit. to come into this scheme, but in 1955 it decided to do so, and eontributed its share of the Capital cost. The Capi- tal cost of the expansion has been met from. this payment, and also from a grant from Colonial: De- velopment and Welfare funds, and further from an increased ‘Capital contribution by the Leeward {slands consequent upon a decision of that Govern- ment to inerease the number of student places for which payment of recurrent cost is guaranteed.