KENYA COMMISSION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 239, 9 October 1935, Page 8

KENYA COMMISSION.

GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE. British Official Wireless. (Received 0.30 a.m.) RUGBY, October 8. The Secretary of State for the Colonics, ifr. Malcolm Mac Donald, has appointed Sir Alan Pim, late of the Indian Civil Service, to visit Kenya Colony as commissioner to inquire into the whole field of Governmental expenditure in Kenya, with particular reference to the cost of administrative and technical services. Air. S. Milligan, formerly agricultural adviser to the Government of India, is to he associated with the commissioner as adviser in respect of agricultural and scientific services. It is anticipated that Sir Alan I'im and Air. .Milligan will leave England hy air on October 23.

MORE IN EMPLOYMENT. BRITISH MONTHLY FIGURES. British Ollietnl Wireless. (Received 0.30 a.m.) RI'GBY, October 8. The total of men in employment increased for September. The .Ministry of Labour estimates that at September 23 there were approximately 10,435.000 insured persons aged between Hi and 01 in employment in Britain; this is 11,000 more than at August 20. and 102,000 more than in the year before at the same date. The numbers of unemployed persons oil the registers in Britain totalled 1,058,010, comprising 1,570,425 wholly unemployed, 208,845 temporarily laid off, and 83,340 normally in casual employment. The total was 10.040 more than at August 20, but 123,377 less than at the same date the year before.