§ Lieut.-Colonel Dowerasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he proposes to develop the wallaba wood-pulp industry of British Guiana; and whether he has, in that connection, initiated steps to improve river transport, and to make surveys for the Egerton scheme of railway facilities from the Atlantic coast to the Amazon?
Mr. M. MacDonaldThe British Guiana Government has granted an option over an area of wallaba forest in British Guiana with a view to the establishment of a wood pulp industry, and I understand that efforts are being made to raise the necessary capital for the project. The question of providing communications in connection with any wood pulp industry that may be established does not arise at this stage.