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African population that Thou.d be one of its greatest nez sets." Inefficiency is increased by the prevalence of debilitating dis- eases; malaria, hookworm, sp- hilis, and tropical ulcer are com-
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SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong, mon and most of the men examin
ed for recruited labour are said to, have one or more of those diseases.'.
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Northern Rhodesia has
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crufting system, and the report gives a favourable... account of conditions in the large mines. In
All communications intended for the small mines conditions are clearly often bad. The account of the Eastern Province notes the effects of soil exhaustion and ero- sion and the contrast between the Editor, and 'de accompanied by the overcrowded native reserves
publication should be addressed
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owned by the North Charterland Company. Major Orde Browne presses urgently for the early, ex- tension of the reserves "for the [present position is certainly criti- cal." In Barotseland the pic- ture is presented of an underfed, weakly population, with the best of ite elements drained away by the distant lure of high wages." The comments on conditions in the territories adjoining Northern Rhodesia, to which there is 2 flow of migrant labour, are also highly critical. By the side of this frank and digameting mass of material Major Orde Browne's proposals may seem light, but they amount to the creation of a new Government service of lab- our officers, the beginning of a servive which, if we are wise, we shall develop in all our colonies In its newly awakened interest where the condition of the native in labour conditions the Colonial labourer, has become a problem. Office last autumn sent Major It will cost money, but, as Major Orde, Browne reminds us, the ex- Orde Browne to Northern Rhode-ploiting companies make big re- sią to make a report. His conclu-venues, and the natives whose sions have now been published, and work has helped to produce this wealth also deserve the supervi they are not pleasant. They have sion and interest some, bearing at least on many of their welfare."
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The hairpin industry is on its up in Britain's African posses way back. The extent of its stay bung in Northern Rhodesia, the depends entirely on the length of Administration has never caught the popularity of the resurgent up wth the recent mining de- high fait do" The new style is definitely here, say the hair- velopment and labour problems dressers, and the evidence of the have been virtually ignored. Ele eyes bears them but. The resul- mentary statistics are lacking, tant possibilities are legion, det Duties have been left to the the ladies take to the coff- fures of prewar days, various mining companies which ought to manufacturers are likely to feel have been performed by the Gov-a beneficial effect. Not only hair- ernment, and when the Govern- pins, both steel and celluloid, ment seeks to take them over must necessarily retarif, but pro-
bably the decorative combs of there is "a certain lack of mutual generation ago, Who doesn't rO comprehension" between it and member the side combs set with brilliants that guttered. under the mine managements and many a ballroom Chandelier? The perceptible air of suspicion." (One high Spanish hack combs of tor- is expected to read between the toise shell nowe may return to lines) Rapid industrialisation and the illusion of height to thode who beck it. And if the "peinetä," Thas taken the existing Govern
ment thrkely surprise, with why not the face mantium 7
The graceful dignity of the the result that experienced - men high hair 100 A
to demand and proper machinery to deal longer, fuller skirts. At least, the with such growth have been textile manufacturers hope so. lacking." On the condition
And hats that fitted closely over a bob must now replaced by the native in me village the the type that
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