CHANGE OF CAPITAL
NORTHERN RHODESIA
LIVINGSTONE TO LUSIKA
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, May 30.
Northern Rhodesia is changing its capital this week, when Lusika, a town planned and built from the bush, takes the place of Livingstone.
The Legislative Council Chamber and the administrative offices will be opened in Lusika toinorrow, and eventually all the activities of the central officials, conducted during the last 24 years at Livingstone, will be transferred there.
The progress of settlement and mining in the territory has left Livingstone far to the south of Northern Rhodesia's main population, and the transfer has been effected with a view to present convenience and future needs. It is expected that Lusika will steadily develop as the centre of mining and farming activities.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 9
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