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Correspondence with John Rankin, MP, 25 Nov 1946-18 Dec 1952

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MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/18, folder 6, fols. 1-169
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Correspondence with John Rankin, MP, who joined the Advisory Committee in Jul 1948 (fols. 44-45). Pages from the Scottish Co-operator, 1950, with articles by him, are included (fols. 100, 101, 104). The papers are concerned with the following territories and topics:

Trinidad:
  1. the possible abolition of flogging: fol. 1
  2. Ten-Year Development Plan: fols. 1, 3
  3. health and unemployment insurance schemes: fols. 22v, 29
  4. the need for revision of the laws concerning workmen's compensation: fol. 77
  5. disappointment at the new Constitution, and the wish for a referendum on it: fol. 78
  6. registration of co-operatives: fol. 132.

Malta:
  1. the framing of a new Constitution: fol. 1
  2. the rehabilitation of the island: fol. 1
  3. over-population and unemployment: fol. 85.

British Guiana (Guyana):
  1. sugar industry - wages and conditions of workers, and prices: fol. 3
  2. rice and copra industries (in 1946): fols. 3, 7-8
  3. Commission to investigate the possibilities of settlement: fol. 11
  4. delay between the advertising of a teaching post and the appointment to it, with a letter from Mrs Allen, Georgetown: fols. 121-122.

St Kitts:
  1. demand for public ownership and operation of the sugar factory, with a letter from Creech Jones: fols. 3v, 7, 8, 12, 18-25.

Kenya:
  1. area covered by and situation of the four Game Parks: fol. 7
  2. corporal punishment, with a letter from Listowel: fols. 26, 36-38
  3. changes in the composition of the Legislative Council: fol. 28
  4. acquisition of land by the Governor (Mitchell) and other senior officials, with a letter from Creech Jones: fols. 28-29, 70-71, 73
  5. the Commission of Inquiry into the causes of low output among African labourers: fol. 28v
  6. African and Indian Co-operative Societies: fol. 35
  7. the position of Indian settlers, particularly in connection with agriculture and housing, with letters from Creech Jones and Lord Listowel: fols. 40, 59-61, 64-65
  8. sugar industry investigation in Nyanza province, Aug 1947, with a copy of W. Lyne Watt's report: fols. 47-58
  9. education, and the need for multi-racial schools. fols. 69-70:
  10. the functioning of the Kikuyu Central Association as a political body: fol. 71
  11. imprisonment of women for refusal to dig contour strips: fol. 71
  12. proposal for Maltese in place of Italian artisans: fol. 95
  13. Development and Reconstruction Authority (DARA) and the need for African representation on it: fol. 98
  14. the inequality in numbers of schools built for Europeans, Asians, and Africans: fol. 98
  15. government loans to African farmers at 8% interest: fol. 115
  16. National Service for Asian and African, as well as European, peoples: fol. 115
  17. colour bar in Nairobi hotels, in connection with the visit of Colonel Poindexter of the US Public Health Service, with a letter from Tom Cook: fols. 126, 133
  18. the proportion of income tax contributed by different races, with a letter from Lyttelton: fols. 136, 138
  19. proposed racial tax for education: fol. 136
  20. technical school in Nairobi open only to Indians: fol. 136.

Bermuda:
  1. the functions of the Bermuda Labour Board: fol. 8
  2. rent restriction legislation: fol. 8
  3. provisions of the Bermuda Trade Union and Trade Disputes Act, 1946, and the need for amendment: fols. 8v, 11, 35.

British Honduras (Belize):
  1. Commission to investigate the possibilities of settlement: fol. 11.

Mauritius:
  1. the sugar industry, with letters from Dugdale and Griffiths: fols. 12, 109, 111, 120
  2. public control of electricity: fol. 12
  3. numbers of immigrants: fol. 12
  4. housing conditions: fols. 12v, 15, 111
  5. cost of living: fols. 12v, 15, 110
  6. the award to government servants of a reduced pension with a gratuity, as an alternative to an unreduced pension, with letters from Creech Jones and L. Rock: fols. 75-76, 83-89
  7. the introduction of an old age pension scheme (in 1950): fol. 95
  8. salaries and pensions of teachers, with letters from Griffiths and Lyttelton: fols. 105, 107, 137, 141, 148
  9. juvenile crime and the school-leaving age, with a letter from Griffiths: fols. 108, 124
  10. complaints about Post-War Credits, with a letter from Michael Stewart enclosing one from Mee P. Riviere written on behalf of Mauritian ex-servicemen: fols. 112-113
  11. suspicions of the judiciary, in connection with the imprisonment of Guy Rozemont: fols. 118, 120
  12. control of land rents, with a letter from Griffiths: fol. 119
  13. lack of recognition shown by the government to Cassim Hossenbux, originator of the experimental road and rail plan of the Black River District: fol. 134.

Sierra Leone:
  1. prices paid for catching monkeys: fol. 14.

Nigeria:
  1. recruitment of labour for East Africa: fol. 22.

East Africa:
  1. recruitment of labour in Nigeria: fol. 22
  2. conditions of workers on the Groundnut Scheme: fol. 22v
  3. operation of the Game Laws: fol. 31
  4. the education of the children of government servants and settlers, with a copy of a letter from Creech Jones's Private Secretary to Brigadier Prior-Palmer: fols. 62-63
  5. salaries of doctors: fol. 106.

Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania):
  1. Groundnut Scheme: fols. 22v, 100, 116
  2. a request to publicise the proceedings of the Trusteeship Council: fol. 114
  3. recruitment of doctors from South Africa: fol. 114
  4. appointment of a Trade Union Adviser: fol. 139.

Uganda:
  1. medical and health services, with a reply by Creech Jones concerning the expenditure of funds on hospital buildings: fols. 27-28, 30
  2. uses of the Uganda Cotton Fund: fols. 30, 41, 135, 166, 168
  3. increase in drunkenness: fols. 30v, 67-68
  4. rioting in which Mulumba was involved in 1945: fols. 46, 69-70
  5. municipal government: fol. 131
  6. the appointment of Africans to the Uganda Electricity Board, and to the Executive Council: fol. 131
  7. Makerere College - the numbers of, and fees paid by, Indian students, with a letter from Alan Lennox-Boyd, and the cost to the College per student: fols. 136, 146-147, 161
  8. land Marketing Board: fol. 168
  9. relationship between the Bugishu Coffee Board and the Uganda Coffee Industry Board: fol. 168.

Colonies, general:
  1. Trade Union Law: fol. 29
  2. separate scales of salaries, and different conditions of service, for different races in certain colonies: fol. 42
  3. the need for trade unions to modify regulations in respect of colonial students requiring temporary membership in order to obtain practical experience in Britain: fol. 81
  4. criticism of the Colonial Development Report (in 1949): fol. 91
  5. racial discrimination in connection with doctors' salaries: fols. 106-107
  6. problems connected with the mechanisation of tropical agriculture: fol. 116
  7. delays between the advertisement of a teacher's post and the appointment, with a letter from Mrs Allen, British Guiana (Guyana): fols. 121-123
  8. the inclusion of non-Europeans as guests of the British Government at the Festival of Britain: fol. 128
  9. policy and functions of the Colonial Development Corporation: fol. 130
  10. regulations under which active members of the Colonial Service are allowed to buy land: fol. 141
  11. development of co-operation in colonial territories: fols. 154-155.

Cyprus:
  1. the functioning of trade unions: fol. 29v.

Africa, general:
  1. education in Africa - draft for adjournment speech by Rankin, 19 Apr 1948: fols. 32-34.

Zanzibar:
  1. causes and results of the general strike (in 1948), with a letter from Creech Jones: fols. 65-67.

Hong Kong:
  1. prosecution of the Chairman of the Naval Dockyard Employees Association, for owning an unregistered printing press: fol. 65
  2. enquiries concerning the Hong Kong Fish Marketing Board: fol. 156
  3. lack of facilities offered to the Chinese Cultural Delegation to India, when passing through Hong Kong: fol. 156
  4. constitutional reform since May 1946: fol. 156v
  5. charge of sedition published in the Ta Kung Pao (1952): fol. 162.

Aden:
  1. town planning and recreational facilities: fol. 92
  2. the need for legislation to control immigration: fol. 92.

Jamaica:
  1. the petition of W.M. Walters, ex-member of the Constabulary, for the restoration of his pension: fols. 80, 90, 93-94.

Gold Coast (Ghana):
  1. high cost of bungalows for African Ministers, with a letter from Dugdale: fols. 95-97
  2. opposition to the appointment to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) of N.A. Ollennu, with a letter from him to the Officer administering the government, Accra, and one from Griffiths: fols. 99, 102-103.

Togoland:
  1. the expansion of the Standing Consultative Committee for French and British Togoland: fol. 99.

The Gambia:
  1. housing and educational facilities: fol. 99.

Central Africa:
  1. anxiety in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) and Nyasaland (Malawi) about which officials of the Central African Council should be called to the Conference on Central African Federation: fol. 108.

Nyasaland (Malawi):
  1. co-operative trading: fols. 115, 120
  2. immigration legislation: fol. 142
  3. restrictions on the collecting of funds by the African Congress for the purpose of sending representatives to Britain: fols. 144, 149
  4. uses of the Native Development and Welfare Fund: fols. 165, 167
  5. the financing and effects of the government paper, African Press Ltd.: fols. 165, 167
  6. the composition and methods of the African Provincial Council, with a letter from Lyttelton: fols. 167, 169.

West Indies:
  1. the work of the Colonial Development Corporation, and the absence of effective public relations: fol. 123.

Barbados:
  1. progress towards implementing the Maude Report on local government: fol. 125
  2. registered co-operatives: fol. 132
  3. the acquisition of estates owned by people in Britain: fol. 135.

Fiji:
  1. nationalities and numbers of students at the Central Medical School, Suva: fol. 125.

Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe):
  1. FCB deputation to the Colonial Secretary (1951): fol. 129.

Northern Rhodesia (Zambia):
  1. immigration legislation: fol. 142
  2. partnership: fol. 153.

Malaya (Malaysia):
  1. Chinese-speaking officers, and offers of help from American Chinese, with letters from Lennox-Boyd: fols. 151-152, 157-160.

High Commission Territories (Lesotho, Botswana, and Eswatini):
  1. speech by Malan linking the demand for the return of the Territories with African opposition to Federation: fol. 164.

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  • Creation: 25 Nov 1946-18 Dec 1952

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