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Correspondence with Rev. Reginald W. Sorensen, MP, who joined the Advisory Committee in 1943 (fol. 19), and subsequently became Vice-Chairman. He was Chairman of the Committee for West African Affairs, a member of the Parliamentary Deputation to India in Jan 1946, and served on the Colonial Office Welfare Committee. He visited Nigeria in 1949. There is frequent mention in the correspondence of administrative and committee matters and the financial problems of the FCB. Territories and topics covered in the correspondence include the following:

Kenya:

  1. plans for indigenous development, with a letter dated 3 Mar 1943 from Oliver Stanley, S/S Colonies, outlining schemes for improvement of agricultural, educational, veterinary, and medical and health services: fols. 1-2
  2. Native Artificers Training Depot: fol. 2
  3. forced labour in tea and coffee plantations (in 1943): fols. 6v, 7
  4. European settlement: fols. 17-18
  5. composition of the Settlement Section of the Agricultural Production and Settlement Board: fols. 17-18
  6. maize subsidy: fol. 26
  7. conditions of service of employees of the Kenya and Uganda Railways, with a letter from Stanley: fol. 34
  8. corporal punishment for African troops: fol. 37v
  9. Workmens' Compensation legislation: fols. 66, 112
  10. education of African girls: fol. 81
  11. proposals for interterritorial organisation with communal parity: fol. 112v
  12. intimidation in connection with a strike in Mombasa (in 1947): fols. 115-116, 118
  13. appointment of a trade unionist to the Labour Department: fol. 113
  14. the Phillips Report, 1945, on labour unrest in Mombasa: fols. 115-116, 118
  15. charge for water supply to African workers' houses, made by the Public Works Department in Mombasa: fol. 115v
  16. high rents for workers' houses: fol. 115v
  17. FCB delegation to the S/S Colonies, on education (in 1947): fol. 128
  18. proposal to reserve two seats in the Central and Eastern Areas for Muslim members of the Legislative Council: fols. 138, 144, 149
  19. Agrarian Bill (in 1949): fol. 167
  20. treatment of prisoners, with a letter from Griffiths: fols. 286, 300-301
  21. Legislative Council (Temporary Provisions) Ordinance 1951: fol. 333
  22. allegations that juvenile delinquents were sent to South African-approved schools, with a letter from Lord Munster, U-S/S Col.: fols. 347, 354.

Bahamas:

  1. taxation system, franchise, and the constitutional position: fol. 3
  2. steps to implement the recommendations of the Committee of Inquiry (in 1943): fol. 20
  3. agricultural project (in 1950): fol. 209v.

Colonies, general:

  1. introduction in certain Colonies of Excess Profits Tax: fols. 4, 6
  2. Social Welfare Advisory Committee of the Colonial Office: fols. 28, 38
  3. Economics Advisory Committee: fol. 28
  4. corporal punishment: fols. 31-32, 37v, 132, 214, 318, 320
  5. colonial trade unions: fol. 56
  6. proposal for insurance schemes for agricultural crops: fol. 66
  7. post-war resumption of the issue of colonial annual reports and the annual Colonial Economic Survey: fols. 67, 69
  8. the constitution and progress of the Central African Council: fol. 67v
  9. Further Education Scheme for colonial troops: fols. 90-91, 97
  10. repeal of the emergency regulations imposed under wartime Defence Regulations: fol. 104
  11. systems of direct taxation in British dependent territories (in 1947): fols. 112-113
  12. International Labour Information Centre: fols. 139, 148
  13. Colonial Development Corporation, with a letter from Greenidge giving details of appointments to the Board and criticisms of its administration: fols. 209-210
  14. Overseas Food Corporation, with a letter from Greenidge containing criticism: fols. 209-210
  15. Colonial Prisons Committee: fol. 214
  16. closure of students' hostels (in 1951): fol. 276
  17. Colour Bar Act, 1951: fol. 277
  18. fire-fighting services, with a letter from Tom Cook: fols. 277, 304-305
  19. colonial guests for the Festival of Britain, with a letter from Griffiths: fols. 279, 282
  20. Family Planning Associations: fol. 297
  21. report on racial discrimination: fols. 301, 318, 333v
  22. prison conditions: fol. 319
  23. co-operative societies: fol. 342.

Gold Coast (Ghana):

  1. composition of Town Councils, in particular at Kumasi: fol. 4v
  2. franchise: fol. 4v
  3. wages of miners (in 1943): fol. 11
  4. constitutional reform: fol. 27
  5. potentialities of the Industrial Development Ordinance: fols. 126-127
  6. closure of Church of England schools, with a letter from Creech Jones: fols. 167, 179
  7. a legal case concerning a dispute between the Asantehene and the Techimanhene: fols. 227-229
  8. implementation of the Coussey Report: fol. 241
  9. the powers of the Vernacular Literature Board: fol. 267
  10. rise in prices (in 1951): fol. 287.

Trinidad:

  1. progress of the Franchise Commission (in 1943): fol. 5
  2. apprentice system: fol. 8v
  3. plans for local government: fol. 11.

West Africa:

  1. the need to introduce Excess Profits Tax: fol. 6
  2. prices paid for primary commodities (in 1943): fol. 8
  3. apprenticeship laws and provisions: fol. 9
  4. cocoa industry: fols. 20-22, 28, 50, 160
  5. constitutional reform: fols. 22, 27, 30, 33
  6. control of advertising patent medicines: fols. 37, 44v
  7. disability pensions for members of the West African forces: fol. 44
  8. demands by the Association of Merchants and Industrialists: fols. 49-50
  9. marketing co-operatives: fol. 50
  10. scheme for economic development (in 1945): fol. 59
  11. conditions of service for European and African civil servants: fols. 60, 63
  12. the report of Alexander Pattison on penal reform: fol. 60v
  13. future posts in West Africa for scholarship social science students: fols. 62, 71
  14. medical services and private practice: fol. 62
  15. the numbers of Africans serving in administrative posts: fol. 78
  16. West African Delegation (in 1947): fols. 123-124
  17. corporal punishment in the Forces: fol. 132
  18. supply of X-ray apparatus to hospitals, with a letter from Rees-Williams: fols. 170-171
  19. the numbers of trained African nurses, and the question of female nurses being required to resign on marriage, with a letter from Rees-Williams: fol. 185
  20. the numbers and working conditions of Health Visitors: fols. 193-194
  21. leprosy relief, with a letter from Tom Cook: fol. 198
  22. the rise in food and cloth prices and in wages, 1949-1951, with a letter from Griffiths and a memorandum, 'Index Numbers of Retail Prices': fols. 291-296
  23. education, with a memorandum providing statistics relating to teachers and schools in 1950: fols. 312-315.

Nigeria:

  1. restrictions on students going abroad: fol. 6
  2. tax levied by local education authorities: fol. 8
  3. Rent Assessment Board in Lagos: fol. 11
  4. conditions of service in Nigerian Native Administrations: fol. 12
  5. Advisory Committee on Economic Development and Social Welfare, set up in 1943: fol. 15
  6. African representation on the Nigeria Supply Board: fol. 15v
  7. discontent among workers at the Enugu coal mine: fol. 15v
  8. enthusiastic reception of Creech Jones in Lagos (in 1944): fol. 30
  9. patent medicine racket: fols. 37, 44v
  10. censorship of the Nigerian Worker (in 1944): fols. 47, 55-56
  11. constitutional reform, with a letter from Rees-Williams: fols. 48, 139, 159
  12. conditions of staff of Native Administration Service: fols. 50v, 60, 63
  13. food shortages: fol. 59
  14. recruitment of labour for Fernando Po: fol. 66v
  15. proposals for a cocoa delegation (in 1945): fol. 69v
  16. claim by the Akarigbo of Ijebu-Remo for £100 annuity, with a letter from Ivor Thomas: fols. 93-109, 122, 125, 229 (see also MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/25, folder 1, fols. 234, 272 for more information)
  17. trials for sedition: fol. 119
  18. Conference of the Nigerian Youth Movement (in 1948): fol. 155
  19. discrimination in local leave of expatriates: fol. 157
  20. living accommodation for nurses and their families attached to hospitals, with a letter from the S/S Colonies: fols. 162-163
  21. arrests of 82 men by the District Officer, Owo, and unfair trials, concerning payment of taxes: fols. 168-169
  22. incidence of venereal diseases and tuberculosis, with a letter from Rees-Williams: fols. 172-173
  23. labour dispute and charges brought against three trade union leaders (in 1949), with an answer by Creech Jones: fols. 189-191
  24. resettlement of ex-servicemen, with a letter from Creech Jones: fol. 192
  25. implementation of the recommendations of the Coussey Report concerning the constitution: fol. 199
  26. suppression of the Zikist movement (in 1950): fol. 201
  27. attempts to weaken the Railway Staff Union of Enugu: fol. 202
  28. road facilities in Northern Nigeria for the transport of cotton: fol. 202
  29. cost-of-living allowance for civil servants: fol. 213
  30. the need for bulk purchase of food by the government: fol. 213
  31. the National Scholarships Board, and the offer of scholarships in East German schools and universities, with a letter from Griffiths: fols. 215-216, 233
  32. civil Servant Selection Board: fol. 215
  33. Nigerian Colliery Workers' Union, Enugu, and allegations concerning the accounts: fol. 226
  34. claim by Chief Jim Jaja for the repayment of a sum given by Opobo chiefs as security to the British Government in 1889, with a letter from Griffiths: fols. 234-236, 238-239
  35. polling hours in the Lagos election (in 1950): fol. 241
  36. length of imprisonment of persons awaiting trial, and the after-care of prisoners, with it letters from Griffiths: fols. 246, 255, 288
  37. the Ten-Year Development Plan, and adjustments because of lack of revenue: fol. 256
  38. raid on the Service Press Limited, Lagos, with a letter from Griffiths: fols. 262, 275
  39. fire-fighting services, with a letter from Tom Cook: fols. 277, 304-305, 311
  40. rise in cost of living (in 1951): fol. 296
  41. Pensions Bill: fol. 319
  42. failure in anti-malarial work: fol. 339
  43. restrictions on freedoms of speech and movement, with a letter from Lyttelton: fol. 345
  44. demand for an enquiry into the behaviour of the Egba Native Authority, with letters from Lyttelton: fols. 348, 351-353
  45. local government: fol. 348.

Jamaica:

  1. conditions in the Kingston Public Hospital (in 1943): fols. 11-12
  2. disturbances involving the death of Mr Nicholas (in 1946): fol. 77
  3. memorial sent to Creech Jones by the East Indian Progressive Society on behalf of the East Indian community: fol. 201
  4. legalisation of cremation on religious grounds, with a letter from Dugdale: fols. 201, 211-212
  5. over-crowding of prisons, with a letter from Lyttelton: fol. 336.

British Guiana (Guyana):

  1. conditions for nurses and the system of fines, with a letter from Stanley: fols. 12, 39
  2. conditions in the bauxite industry: fols. 51, 55
  3. land settlement of East Indian plantation workers: fol. 143.

East Africa:

  1. post-war employment of ex-servicemen: fol. 16
  2. European settlement: fols. 17-18
  3. forced labour (in 1944): fol. 26
  4. sisal industry: fol. 32
  5. reorganisation of Labour Departments as recommended in the Orde Browne Report: fol. 78
  6. report of the East African Civil Service salaries: fols. 146, 149
  7. supply of X-ray apparatus to hospitals, with a letter from Rees-Williams: fols. 174-176
  8. proposals by white settlers for a common racial policy for Europeans in East and Central Africa, aimed at limiting the political advancement of Africans (in 1950): fol. 197.

West Indies:

  1. unemployment and insurance schemes: fol. 20v
  2. discrimination in connection with West Indian airmen: fols. 45, 49
  3. report of the West Indies Development and Welfare Commission: fol. 66
  4. further education scheme for troops: fols. 90-91,97
  5. suitability for a groundnut scheme, expressed in a letter from Greenidge: fol. 209v
  6. embargo on Hindu cremation practices, with a letter from Dugdale and extract from the West Indian Royal Commission 1938-1939: fols. 211-212.

High Commission Territories (Lesotho, Botswana, and Eswatini):

  1. proposals for incorporation in the Union of South Africa (in 1944): fol. 25.

Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania):

  1. forced labour (in 1944): fols. 26, 32, 47v
  2. sisal industry: fol. 32
  3. Development schemes in Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania) under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act: fol. 45V
  4. salary scales for African and Indian civil servants (in 1944): fols. 45v, 48
  5. labour conditions (in 1944): fol. 47
  6. the grant of licences for mine prospectors: fol. 67
  7. United Nations Organization decision against German settlers, and their repatriation, with a letter from Griffiths: fols. 118, 253, 258, 264
  8. African representation: fol. 197
  9. groundnut scheme, with criticisms expressed in a letter from Greenidge: fol. 209v
  10. corporal punishment: fol. 270v
  11. exchange of lands, under the Wilson Report, with a letter from Lennox-Boyd: fol. 320, 246.

Palestine:

  1. surplus citrus crop (in 1944): fol. 28
  2. strike of Arab workers in the American colony in Jerusalem: fols. 52-56.

Uganda:

  1. cotton spinning and weaving industry: fols. 28v, f35
  2. conditions of service of employees of the Kenya and Uganda Railways, with a letter from Stanley: fol. 34
  3. co-operative marketing of coffee, with a letter from Stanley: fols. 35, 41-43
  4. African representation on the Legislative Council: fols. 35v, 44v
  5. shortage of sugar supplies, with a letter from Stanley: fol. 38
  6. deaths of cattle following inoculation against rinderpest: fol. 50
  7. arrests following strike (in 1945): fols. 57, 61
  8. the grant of licences for mine prospectors: fol. 67
  9. appointment of Africans to the Legislative Council (in 1945): fol. 69
  10. re-organisation of the lower grades of the Civil Service: fol. 78
  11. sedition trial (in 1947): fol. 119
  12. Jewish internees: fols. 120, 133
  13. appointment of Africans to the Uganda Development Board: fol. 132v.

Ceylon (Sri Lanka):

  1. re-employment of ex-servicemen: fol. 40.

The Gambia:

  1. food shortage: fol. 40
  2. agitation connected with post-war development plans: fols. 55-56
  3. constitutional reform: fol. 60v
  4. Colonial Development Corporation's egg and poultry project: fol. 209v
  5. proposals for building an independent secondary school: fol. 349.

Mauritius:

  1. disturbances (in 1944): fol. 44
  2. constitutional reform: fol. 51v
  3. land settlement, with letters from Rees-Williams: fols. 177, 184.

Nyasaland (Malawi):

  1. Political representation: fols. 51, 55
  2. Prohibition of the collection of funds to send a Nyasaland African Congress delegation to Britain, concerning federation: fol. 344.

Africa, general:

  1. forced labour (in 1945): fol. 62
  2. progress of Ten-Year Development Plans for African Colonies (in 1948): fol. 132v.

Cameroons (Republic of Cameroon):

  1. housing and other social facilities: fol. 66v
  2. the future of former German plantations: fol. 82v
  3. activities of the United Fruit Company: fol. 82v
  4. the need for a Commission to enquire into grievances concerning customs, trade, travel facilities, and currency (in 1950): fol. 199
  5. Cameroons Development Corporation, housing for employees, and conditions of immigrant labourers, with a letter from Dugdale: fols. 267, 269, 283
  6. export of bananas: fol. 269
  7. representation in the Central Legislature: fol. 302.

Fiji:

  1. criticism of the Economic Warfare Department: fols. 70, 80
  2. constitutional reform: fol. 81.

Burma (Myanmar):

  1. franchise, and the amendment of the 1935 Act (in 1946): fol. 85
  2. compensation for property destroyed by the Japanese: fol. 272.

Malaya (Malaysia):

  1. wages of Indian and Chinese labourers: fol. 87
  2. medical and educational facilities on the Carey Islands: fol. 87
  3. water facilities for labourers: fol. 87
  4. prohibition of toddy: fols. 87v, 109
  5. land settlement of Indian plantation workers, with a letter from Rees-Williams: fols. 143, 151, 153
  6. detention of individuals deemed 'undesirable aliens' in Singapore: fol. 299.

South Africa:

  1. the status of Indians: fols. 109, 111
  2. African passive resistance movement: fol. 337.

Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe):

  1. proposal to delay repatriation of Germans: fol. 118.

Basutoland (Lesotho):

  1. corporal punishment in the Forces: fol. 132.

Bermuda:

  1. petition presented to the S/S Colonies by the Bermuda Workers' Association (in 1947): fol. 112.

Borneo:

  1. plans for large-scale agricultural production (in 1948): fol. 137.

Eritrea:

  1. local support for Italian trusteeship: fol. 146.

India:

  1. the situation in Goa (in 1949): fol. 161
  2. family planning: fols. 298-299.

Togoland:

  1. report by the Mandated Togoland Farmers' Association on conditions in the medical and educational services, roads, and the cocoa industry (in 1949), with a letter from Creech Jones: fols. 165-167, 180, 187
  2. scholarships in UK, Achimota, and Ibadan: fol. 166
  3. water supply, with a letter from Creech Jones: fols. 187, 196
  4. regional administration and the Coussey Report: fol. 195
  5. Anglo-French co-operation: fols. 199, 243, 250
  6. African representation on the Legislative Council of the Gold Coast (Ghana): fol. 200
  7. unification of the two Togolands, the Coussey Report, petitions of the Ewe people, agitation against the new Constitution, and electoral problems, with letters from Griffiths: fols. 195, 250-251, 260-261, 265, 302, 357-358.

Hong Kong:

  1. transit visas for Chinese students returning from Britain to China: fol. 205
  2. constitutional reform: fol. 205
  3. Hong Kong Registration Ordinance: fol. 205v
  4. Labour Advisory Board: fol. 205v
  5. the need for primary education: fol. 205v
  6. Development of co-operatives: fol. 205v
  7. the deteriorating situation during the post-war years, summed up by Hilda Selwyn-Clarke: fol. 205v
  8. whipping of juveniles, and alternative proposals: fol. 214
  9. pensions for Colonial Servants: fol. 319
  10. the numbers of students from Brunei, North Borneo (Sabah, Malaysia) and Sarawak studying at Hong Kong University (in 1953): fol. 359.

Seychelles:

  1. proposals of the Taxpayers' Association to introduce a poll tax: fol. 240
  2. wage rates and workers' conditions: fols. 240, 242, 248-249
  3. abolition of rationing, price control, and certain subsidies (in 1950): fols. 242, 269, 270v, 339-340
  4. corporal punishment, with a letter from Griffiths: fols. 252, 257, 270
  5. rise in price of copra (in 1951): fols. 269v, 339, 347.

Sierra Leone:

  1. reform of the Freetown Municipal Council: fol. 48
  2. the granting of a new Municipal Ordinance to Freetown: fols. 67, 126
  3. Sierra Leone Sedition Ordinance, and the conviction in 1940 of Sydney Boyle, with a letter from G.H. Hall: fols. 68, 72-76, 79, 82-84, 86-89, 92, 95, 97, 99-107
  4. constitutional reform, with a letter from Rees-Williams: fols. 147, 201, 231, 290
  5. rice production, and proposals for a Rice Marketing Board, with letters from Griffiths and the Governor, and photostats of relevant documents: fols. 204, 213, 217-225
  6. methods of election to District Councils and to the Legislative Council, and the right to vote of electors living outside the area in which they were born, with a letter from Griffiths: fols. 280, 284, 289, 290.

Dates

  • Creation: 3 Mar 1943-5 Mar 1953

Extent

1 folder

Language of Materials

  • English

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MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/19, folder 4

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