The Labour Commission which was appointed by Sir Edward Grigg
to investigate the labour supply in Kenya has reported that there need no longer be any misgivings provided that the estates are competently managed and that further use is made of machinery. This report will reinforce the appeals which Sir Edward Grigg has made in the Colony for a modification of the "plantation system of agriculture. If " plantation " crops, grown on huge estates, became more common, the outlook would be gloomy. But if non-" plantation" crops, particularly wheat, on smaller units of land, are more generally growls. the labour difficulty will settle itself. And this will happen in the most desirable way ; for the future will be not with the " manager " who works perhaps for a company, big with the man who owns his own acres and feels that he is directly concerned in and responsible for the social well. being of the Colony.
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