School Moved By Bicycle
LAUSAKA ’ (Northern Rhodesia). Lorries, boats, and finally bicycles were used to transport the sections of 8 prefabricated school building for Africans through hundreds of miles of dense Northern Rhodesian bush country. The first part of the journey to the village of Chief Ngabwe, in the not easily accessible Lenge African reserve, was made by lorry to the banks, of the Kafue river. ' ’ From there it was planned to send building sections down-river in boats, but two attempts were unsuccessful. The first ended with the boats stuck on sandbanks and the second with propellers being damaged by rocks. , In -the end the loads were slung between bicycles and reached their destination along tortuous bush paths.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28951, 20 July 1959, Page 9
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