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38   St. Lucia 38.
After lunch we walked a short distance from the house and stopped at a pile of cocoa.
[[underlined]] Station 226. [[/underlined]]
1/4 mile northeast of St. Remy. In fairly old cocoa pods (still colored) I've found 358 Staphs (Piestinae - 22, Amaliinae - 2, Paederinae - 12, [[underlined]] Philonthus [[/underlined]] - 3, [[underlined]] Coproporus [[/underlined]] - 173, Aleocharinae - 146 of several species), 7 Hydrophilids, 4 Nitidulids, 1 Scolytid, 10 other Coleoptera, 12 Forficulids, and a few ants.
Ruth was a little tired so we came home and then I went out on the motor for an hour.
[[underlined]] Station 227. [[/underlined]]
1/4 mile north of station 221, or 3/4 mile north of St. Remy on main road. In fresh cocoa pods found 271 Staphs (Piestinae - 2, Paederinae - 4, [[underlined]] Coproporus [[/underlined]] - 65, Aleocharinae - 200 of several spp.), 1 Hydrophilid, 1 Nitidulid, 1 Forficulid, etc.
Now the island total is 2400, and the trip total [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] about 8900.
A copy of the local paper The Crusader brought up the subject of the recent St. Vincent riots - and the Administrator's subsequent censorship of the press and cable office. His actions were upheld by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, but the man was very shortly transferred to the Seychelles as Governor. It is actually a raise in rank, but the point is that they immedi-
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ately transfer an official under whom occurs such disorders, rather than leaving him to settle the matter and make a satisfactory ending to it. The man who is to succeed him comes from Fiji, and it is rumoured that his experience is limited to "aborigines", while here he will find a large percentage of partly educated blacks with a few wealthy and influential ones. The British should have learned by now how to manage their colonies, but this doesn't appear to be a good example. Neither is the Imperial Institute of Entomology. It has at least three men working on sugar cane moth-barer control in the West Indies, yet they are completely independent and working on different theories. No one benefits by anyone else's studies, unless they happen to be published later on. The men know they may be transferred at any time to the other side of the world. The result is a great deal of duplication and wasted effort - paid for chiefly by the local planters, and to some extent unpleasant feelings between the men themselves, - each being sure of his own particular system and its advantages. The men themselves see the need of some means of coordination, but it is not supplied by the Institute at home.