Vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 6946 tons and 5680. This gives a large increase in tonnage, and a comparatively large increase of ships, from which results, if statistics are to be relied upon, a necessary inference that the average size of ships bringing cargo in 1954-55 was larger than the average ship in 1885, the increase having been in the larger vessels, that is, in those employed in the Overseas trade, which trade is the life and strength of the Colony.
31. On the subject of Education with special reference to the present and future provision of Interpreters, Your Excellency some time back appointed a commission of enquiry. This being a question so purely of personal and individual opinion, has considerably influenced the Commissioners in forming conclusions, but I trust that a report may be shortly presented. In the meantime I may not be out of place in stating what suggestions are on foot for regaining the valuable assistance of Mr. Caldwell, whose resignation from the Service was attributable to no act of the Colonial Government.
32. In the month of November, the Government, after full and mature reflection, published its project of a Playa on the Royal Sea front of the city, and remark this as one of the important events of the past year, and the introduction of a great future improvement, and undoubted benefit, in many ways, to the Colony.
33. Another useful project was a new Carriage Road to Moulmein, but this has been abandoned for the time, as the