Developing Colonies
LONDON. Moil. (11.30 a.m.L— Britain contributed another £12,000,000 towards the development of her colonial Empire last year, Mr Arthur Creech-Jones, the Colonial Secretary, announced today.
New schemes for colonial development ranged from the reconditioning of African farm lands in Kenya to tuition for an obstetrician in Baj'badoes. In the Western Pacific £IOB3IOO was proposed for a medical centre at Suva, Fiji, as part of a comprehensive Western Pacific health service. In North Borneo, devastated by war, it was proposed to spend £2,000.000 on reconstruction and £3,500.000 on development. Half of this money would be British.
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Northern Advocate, 19 July 1949, Page 5
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