GLOWING REPORT ON WEST AFRICA.
MINIMUM OF WORK NECESSARY. PROMISING MARKET FOR BRITISH GOODS. / (Received This Dav, 5.55 a.m.) •• LONDON, February 26. A report presented tty the Parliamentary Commission under Major Walter Eliot, M.P., a well-known health authority, which recently visited West Africa, contains a rosy report of these possessions. It states that they ere second in importance only to India from an Empire standpoint. The report;further says that no industrial troubles exist, because owing to bounteous Nature, it is only necessary to work two months in the year. Twenty millions of natives who are just tasting civilisation already buy more British goods per capita than United States. The huge land stretching to the borders of i he Sahara Desert is one of the biggest, live stock areas in the Empire. It is now carrying three million head of stock. Thick seams exist in the Enugu hillsides; there arc also rich tin-fields, and a great palm-oil belt on the coast. The country offers one of the greatest opportunities for British enterprise.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 February 1928, Page 8
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