NATIVES. FROM EAST AFRICA
VISIT MADE TO LONDON'. (British. Official Wirekss.) RUGBY, April 17. The Joint Select Committee which is considering the question, of closer union in East Africa will shortly take evidence from native witnesses selected to represent the various tribes and sections of opinion in Kenya, Uganda and the Mandated Territory of Tanganyika. The native Government of Uganda lias also sent a witness. 'l’lie witnesses, who will represent more than 10,000.000 natives in blast Africa, and are for the most part chiefs or members of native councils, will arrive in England on April 22, and will stav about three weeks. During uneir stay they will fulfil an extensive programme, including visits to London docks, Croydon airport, Schools of Forestry and Agriculture at Oxrorct. besides sight-seeing and a number oi social engagements. A section of the party will go to Lancashire to study the cotton industry. It is hoped that, as well as facilitating the work of the committee, the visit will prove of instructive value to the natives.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1931, Page 5
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170NATIVES. FROM EAST AFRICA Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1931, Page 5
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