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(b) Rent: Five East African cents per acre per annum.
(c) Forest Royalties: to be paid on all "fine timbers" utilised by the Corporation and on all timber sold. All timber felled in clearing operations to be extracted and utilised so far as is practicable. (Extraction plant and saw mills have been provided.)
(d) Survey Costs and Registration Fees: to be met by the Corporation. (e) Compensation: on a scale approved by the Governor to be paid to any persons displaced. Removal is subject to alternative suitable land being available and to the agreement of the persons con- cerned. (The
(The number affected has been small. Compensation has included the provision of water supplies.)
(f) Termination: The lease to be subject to termination or variation at any time in accordance with any agreement which may be entered into by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Government of Tanganyika for the transfer of the Corporation's undertaking or any part of it to the Tanganyika Government.
54. The Corporation enjoys no privileges in East Africa that are not enjoyed by other large-scale enterprises, and is given no exemption from taxation.
General Description
A. KONGWA REGION
55. The area in which development operations were originally recom- mended consisted of some 500,000 acres of the Central Province of Tanganyika which, except for a small percentage of open grassland, known locally as Mbuga land, is covered with a thick bush vegetation, consisting mainly of commophira thicket with scattered acacia spirocarpa trees.
56. A site at the foot of the Kiboriani Hills and some six miles south of the development area was chosen as the base of the Scheme because of the ease with which it could be linked to the Central Railway line by constructing a 16 mile spur from Msagali.
57. Poor earth roads linked Kongwa with Dodoma, the provincial capital, and Sagara, fifteen miles to the East, where sweet water was available.
58. Kongwa is 3,500 ft. above sea level. The climate is good. Temperatures vary from 50° F. to 90° F. according to the season and time of day. Rain- fall is spread over a five-six months' season from November to April, usually with a short dry spell in January or February. The only rainfall records for Kongwa Village itself were compiled by the Church Missionary Society Mission in the Kongwa Valley; these had been kept since 1939, and when the Wakefield Mission visited the district, covered a period of seven years. The records of the Central Province as a whole show that the rains are erratic and droughts may be expected one year in seven. (See para. 95.) Position when the Overseas Food Corporation took over
59. On March 31, 1948 the population of Kongwa was:-
76
European employees
families
O.F.C.
294
Contractors.
...
Africans
18 3,527
204 19 2,794
3,839 .
3,017..
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