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Agriculture, and an Art Class. Each evening at a later hour, educated Africans became voluntary teachers of some 150 other Africans anxious to learn English, arithmetic, and to read and write. Each member paid 15s. a year, and each class student 3s. There is a library.
321. There were three African schools in the Kongwa Region, all of them in tents.
322. The Tanganyika Government will pay 90 per cent. of the salary bills of these Corporation African schools, and give a grant to the cost of school buildings. Government African schools are free; but in all Corporation African schools fees must be paid; and a system of fee-paying new to the colonies was introduced by reducing the fees as a child passed up the school, until schooling became free; hard work and merit were thus rewarded, not penalised. There is some hope that the wastage after the first year or two -the curse of African educational systems-will be arrested. The schools are planned to give four years of primary schooling and four years of practical education in handwork, farming, hygiene and the improvement of home and village life.
Welfare
323. A report made to the Board by the Education and Social Science Department in May, 1948, strongly emphasised that the separation of welfare from general man-management was wrong in principle and socially harmful in practice; the report recommended, and the Board agreed, that welfare must be the responsibility of the Management, of each Head of Department, and of every user of African labour; it was also recommended and agreed that there should not be a Welfare Department or a Chief Welfare Officer. This fundamental principle of welfare was not successfully applied by all Heads of Departments, and users of African labour.
324. This fault is receiving the attention of the Central Management.
W.V.S.
325. To meet the human needs and problems consequent on the arrival of wives and families at Dar-es-Salaam, Kongwa and Urambo, the Women's Voluntary Services, at the invitation of the Corporation, sent out a team of five voluntary workers in July. The team did most valuable work in the three Regions. It prepared for the arrival of and welcomed wives and families, provided information, acted as escorts, and visited families and Units. The human and welfare side of the Project, so far as Europeans are concerned, owes much to the Women's Voluntary Services. The experiment of using the Service in this new colonial enterprise was abundantly justified.
Social Life
326. Social life in the Corporation's Regions is organised by members of the staffs. The Corporation has been responsible for supplying capital equipment club houses, tennis courts, open-air cinemas, etc. For example, in Kongwa the Corporation built and furnished a club and presented it to the staff, a committee of which is responsible for its administration. The club holds weekly danges2 gives gramophone recitals, offers foor games, and serves as a meeting place.
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