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No. 168.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
GOVERNOR SIR G. R. LE HUNTE to THE EARL OF ELGIN.
(No. 30.) MY LORD,
(Received August 6, 1907.)
Government House, Adelaide, July 4, 1907. WITH reference to your Lordship's despatch, circular, of the 22nd March,* on the subject of veterinary administration, I have the honour to inform your Lordship that my Ministers are much obliged for the offer to assist this State in the matter of veterinary officers, but that they do not require any under present circum- stances as they are sufficiently provided with them.
I have, &c.,
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No. 169.
GEORGE R. LE HUNTE.
SOMALILAND.
INDIA OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received August 8, 1907.)
India Office, August 7, 1907.
[Published as No. 28 in [Cd. 4472], January, 1909.]
No. 170.
CAPTAIN G. CONDON to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received August 8, 1907.)
NOTES ON THE VARIOUS FORMS OF TRANSPORT IN WEST AFRICA, BY GEORGE CONDON, SENIOR TRANSPort Officer, NORTHERN NIGERIA.
Carriers.
Native carriers are generally in gangs of from 30 to 50, under a headman (who does not carry a load). Each load is about 56 lbs.
load.
Daily journey is from 16 to 20 miles.
Pay.-Headman, 1s. per diem; carriers, 9d. per diem; 44d. per diem without Advances are made to the men when starting on a journey of 3d. per diem as subsistence money, and is always handed over to the European in charge of the
convoy.
Carrier transport is used for both civil and military expeditions where there are no properly cleared roads, and also in the rainy seasons when, as at present, animal transport is impossible. (See photo No. 1.)
Bullocks.
The carts at present used are the two-wheeled Indian pattern, as in photo No. 2, a pole, of course, being used instead of the shafts as shown.
The regulation load is about 800 lbs.
At present these carts are drawn by two bullocks, which is, in my opinion, quite wrong. At the least four bullocks should be used.
These carts in the hands of experienced and careful drivers are very useful, and should always have a back brake, but in West Africa, where animal transport is quite a new feature, are, in my opinion, a great mistake, for the following reasons:- The West African native is very careless in his ways, and if sent off in charge of carts, without the supervision of experienced European transport men, lets the
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