Page 139 6. Further, to ensure that future development of the system of native administration in Basutoland is fully understood and soundly executed, the Secretary of State has directed that tours and visits should be arranged for chiefs and headmen to other colonial territories where they can witness in operation well- established local government institutions.
7. The Secretary of State is confident that the steps contemplated will result in achievement of the objectives recommended by Mr. Jones, in particular greater decentralisation, the creation of effective and representative instruments of local African government, and the development of the chieftainship as a continuing institution fitted to shoulder its modern responsibilities.
Commonwealth Relations Office, March 1951.
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