ANCE OF BRITISH COLONIES

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14568, 12 January 1948, Page 3

ANCE OF BRITISH COLONIES

LAND ECONOMIC PROGRESS

ation, -Health And Housing

.nd Other Types Of Research

Special to The Times) London, Jan. 6. Ist a troubled background, in egions of the workLthe year w great progress finade in ig British Dependencies to i conditions and the building al, economic and political ions necessary for their well-

n new circumstances. !her education formed an im- | part of this. University cohere being planned or reid in principal regions—West Malaya, Nigeria, the Gold nd East Africa—with British

iwhile, despite the pressure ce in the Universities, some denial students were in Brining the year, another 1500 themselves of a study for further education and nal training in the United ®i and nearly 200 were at the Court of London. Spread of Education

■rptories freed from the Japeducation was returning to and reached even more n than before in Malaya and “•°ng. Work went forward 'here, the building up of 7 a nd secondary education, :n =, a number of training coldeveloping girls and s education. ' Tanganyika t to spend five and a half milounds in ten , years, and to of school pupils to

inr i 1 j eX P e riments in mass j Jed to special officers and j se s to many Colonies, L c , se , hterary campaigns a u udl emes as health, welS r agriculture. Si- t ent nants to the ColMjpatwtive Service from J! and West Africa were ri na s ?F 0n d half of their train•sitv ae year a t the London iarL n r? Sary funds having j+u e ,d at the- end of the United Kingdom Parlia-

Hcalth and Nutrition utrif? here . of health services tn S’ Pr ™ e attention was ie> aspects and !d tn iu Ke nya death rate 217 hat - u * P er thousand Sajfjthe war. The use a ylw :l ] ,T '' to control i a T J ei Jow fever was exr°vidediVM Ca food yeast fac ' iaily n?+? alaya with 12 to 15 amin n m important source Proceeded il Utriticm investigating a ttl n *- any Col onies. social welfare, of;2; b .wares the pro;s, the-rfl Ms. to rural ae enm, Vel °P m ent of social ons S Ura gement of local inig. of \ se K'jeliance, and the racticp *? re . staff to put : to instil 5 p I lnc iPies they are >ad course .Conferences were h fund? S ran § ed with the !^id 'their^ e f t African hoy ■liar E a „ f 7 nrst Jamboree and Place; , ncan Jamboree ' took na„ f nct i and Belgian “°uncilf d ;, V Wom en’s VolunM and lv were eshough i, ex Pandcd. m sh£' ing suffered from hbour nP 5 ’ m aterials and 1 Pans went forward

for houses that will be reasonably cheap and easy to build and suited to local conditions. Nigeria planned a model industrial town for IV 000 people at Apapa as the satellite of Lagos. Model villages and settlements to house the new groundnut workers of East Afnca >- planned. Labour Relations There was some labour unrest during the year, but most disputes were satisfactorily settled and. on the whole, the labour reiations improved. Practical training o officers with the help of the Bnti, Trades Union Council was fended. A Tripartite. Labour Board wao set up at Singapore. Tne Centiai African Council took steps to migrant labour for the ben i O ,. pr labourer, his family, his employer and the development of the countiy concerned. , -rh. £1,140,000 was granted from m tish funds for a great• Y a “ u °h research schemes on wffich so muen economic and social P lO J^ oends. Steps were taken to co ordinate research between e onies and between the Government and commercial enterprise the ■SSSf collet fn fn a the h WertSSfe and the nuU-itlon field working party m Gambia.