BRITAIN TO PAY U.S. SURVEYORS

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25739, 26 February 1949, Page 7

BRITAIN TO PAY U.S. SURVEYORS

WORK IN COLONIAL TERRITORIES <Rec. 8 p.in.) LONDON. February 25. lhe Marshall Aid administrators are to allocate 1,500,000 dollars to pay American geologists and surveyors lor survey work in British colonial terriJ orie s. This information was given oy the Colonial Secretary (Mr Creech Jones) to the House of Commons, ■the geologists will join teams working on a basic geological map of Britain s overseas territories, which is to completed by 1956. The surveyors will work chiefly in East and Central Airica. many of them on railway outes to link Northern Rhodesia with Aenya. These will be of great strangle importance, serving the new East lie an military supply base, and will praKi Pass territories of considciiia- c °mmercial importance, inwiii lnc £ r °undnut areas. Britain £. Provide sterling towards the costs an d other expenses. e dec ’ ? ions are regarded as imbecause they may lead to the CfaF stmen l of considerable United i- C^ pi ’ 3 ’ with the support of the "pni S • Government. If the American an d surveyors report fav- ? • on the Possibility of developaX? - ln these areas, the case for s ”engthened° anS W ° Uld be grea ‘ ly