Jamaica Dispatch, memo from the Director of Agriculture to the Colonial Secretary Criticises F G Nicholas' proposal on the use of plantain flour as unreasonable and based on incorrect facts -- points out the low nutritional value of plantain, its limited supply -- thinks sweet potato is more promising and has arranged to experiment with loaves of corn meal and sweet potato -- is sorry that 'Jamaica is unable to to afford any appreciable assistance to the Mother Country in the matter of Bread substitutes except by economies in her own demands.' 20 January 1917