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Memoranda, reports, and other papers, 1936-1950

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  1. (fols. 1-10) memoranda of the Labour Party Advisory Committee on the Imperial Questions: (fols. 1-5) No. 171, on the Report on Emigrant Labour, by C.R. Buxton; (fols. 6-10) No. 175, on the Nyasaland Agreement on Migrant Labour, by J.F.N. Green, Oct and Nov 1936
  2. (item 1) Annual Reports of the Provincial Commissioners (Eric Smith, Southern Province, and the A.G.O. Hodgson, Northern Province) for the year ended 31 Dec 1939 (57 pp.), 1940
  3. (item 2) Financial Report 1939, by G.H. Adams, Financial Secretary (49 pp.), 24 Sep 1940
  4. (fol. 11) note about the filing of Nyasaland Memorandum on Education, n.d.
  5. (fol. 12) note by Creech Jones of the address of C. Matinga, n.d.
  6. (fol. 13) extracts from a letter from a missionary in Nyasaland (Malawi) to his predecessor (then in England) about labour legislation and child labour, n.d.
  7. (fols. 14-16) Colonial Office press releases about the Jubilees of Nyasaland (Malawi) and Uganda, 14 May 1941
  8. (fols. 17-25) correspondence about tea restrictions and graduated land tax, between W.H. Timcke (a planter in Cholo), Mr Underwood, Lands Officers, and K.L. Hall, Chief Secretary to the Government of Nyasaland (Malawi), with a cutting from the Nyasaland Times, 17 Jun-26 Jul 1941
  9. (fol. 26) Colonial Office press release about the Native Development and Welfare Fund, 30 May 1944
  10. (fols. 27-33) extract from a letter from Timcke (fols. 35-36) and a letter from Hastings Banda to Rita Hinden, about the development of political responsibility among Africans, as well as a Colonial Office press release and two cuttings from East Africa & Rhodesia, 24 Jul 1944-Feb 1945
  11. (fol. 34) The Nyasaland Protectorate (Native Trust Land) (Amendment) Order in Council, 1944, 27 Oct 1944
  12. (fols. 35-40) letter from Timcke to Rita Hinden, about the need for the African Congress to nominate their own African members on the Provincial Councils, and cuttings from the Nyasaland Times reporting the First Annual General Meeting of the Congress, 13-21 Nov 1944
  13. (item 3) Nyasaland African Congress (NAC) report of the First Annual General Meeting (16 pp.), 21 Oct 1944
  14. (item 4) Nyasaland African Congress (NAC) - Constitution of the Organisation (9 pp.), 20 Dec 1944
  15. (fols. 41-49) letters from Timcke and G.R. Strauss, MP, to Rita Hinden about the new Tobacco Board, with copies attached of the Nyasaland Government Gazette concerning the Board and of the Tobacco, Cotton, and Foodstuffs Ordinances, 16 Dec 1944-9 Feb 1945
  16. (fols. 50-52) Trans-Zambesia Railway: memorandum concerning its finances, with a statement of the annual amounts paid to the Company by the government, 1920-1943, n.d.
  17. (fols. 53-57) two letters from Oliver Stanley, S/S Col., to Creech Jones, and one from Sir Edmund Richards to Stanley, about African representation on the Nyasaland Legislative Council and on the Provincial Councils, 7 May-18 Jun 1945
  18. (fol. 58) Colonial Office note on a grant to finance a campaign against venereal disease, 25 May 1945
  19. (item 5) Immigration (Enemy Aliens) Restriction Ordinance, 1945, and Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Ordinance, 1945 (4 pp.), 8 Sep and 14 Nov 1945
  20. (item 6) Tung Ordinance, 1945 (8 pp.), 23 Nov 1945
  21. (item 7) Co-operative Societies Ordinance, 1945 (21 pp.), 5 Dec 1945
  22. (item 8) Annual Report of the Labour Department for the year ending 31 Dec 1945, by M.E. Leslie, Labour Commissioner (10 pp.), [1946]
  23. (fols. 59-98) letter from C.J. Matinga, President-General, Nyasaland African Congress (NAC), to the Chief Secretary, Zomba, with Minutes of the Second Annual Conference, 21 Jan 1946
  24. (fols. 99-103) letter [from Beryl Cross?] to I.D. Robertson, covering a Colonial Office note about the Nyasaland African Protectorate Council and lists of matters discussed at the Third Sessions of the African Provincial Councils of the Southern and Central Provinces, 23 Apr 1946
  25. (item 9) Annual Report of the Labour Department for the year ending 31 Dec 1946, by M.E. Leslie (13 pp.), [1947]
  26. (fol. 104) note about the filing of the Report of Commission on Civil Services of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland 1947, n.d.
  27. (fol. 105) Parliamentary question by Baldwin about the Land Commission Report, and Creech Jones's Reply, 14 May 1947
  28. (fols. 106-133) record of the Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the Nyasaland African Congress (NAC) (Chairman, Matinga), 26 Sep 1947
  29. (fols. 134-166) papers concerning education numbered 1-3 and inscribed 'Return to Marjorie Nicholson', 22 Mar 1948: (1) (fols. 134-140) letter from Matinga to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 22 Mar 1948; (2) (fols. 141-148) Nyasaland African Congress (NAC) Memorandum on African education, n.d.; and (3) (fols. 149-166) report of a meeting between the Acting Governor and a deputation of the Nyasaland African Congress (NAC) on 24 Sep 1947, n.d.
  30. (fol. 167) 'Northern Rhodesia & Nyasaland - Racial discrimination in the Civil Service': Memorandum FCB(48)11, n.d.
  31. (fol. 168) three Parliamentary Questions asked by Skinnard, with Replies by Creech Jones, about representation of Nyasaland (Malawi) by Africans at the African Conference in London, and constitutional changes: Hansard, 16 Jun, Col. 428; 17 Jun, Col. 88, 16 and 17 Jun 1948
  32. (fol. 169) Colonial Office note about Nyasaland (Malawi)'s wedding presents to Princess Elizabeth, 21 Sep 1948
  33. (fols. 170-171) 'Notes on conditions in Nyasaland': Empire Information Bureau, Paper No. 15, Nov 1948
  34. (fols. 172-173) Colonial Office releases and a typed 'announcement' about an increase in membership of the Legislative Council
  35. (fols. 174-177) Colonial Office releases on (1) reduction in the cost of licensing fees for commercial agents; (2) literacy campaign; and (3) Chiromo railway bridge, 21 and 23 Oct, 8 Dec 1949
  36. (fols. 178-183) 'Notes on conditions in Nyasaland': Empire Information Bureau, Paper No. 15 (two revised versions of fols. 170-171), Apr and Nov 1950
  37. (fol. 184) Nyasaland African Congress (NAC) Notice and Agenda of the 1950 Mzimba Conference, 16 Jun 1950.

Dates

  • Creation: 1936-1950

Extent

1 folder

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/104, folder 1

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