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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 2, 1939.
A Year's Work In Colonial
Empire
London, To-day.
In conformity with the practice begun last year of presenting to Parliament, with the Colonial and Middle Eastern Estimates, a review of the year's work in the Colonial Empire, a Blue Book was issued last night which records de- velopments up to the end of March last. ... ́ The description of peaceful and fruitful progress in many spheres of activity over vast areas of colonial dependencies effectively serves to put in their true perspective events of a less happy nature which have marred the year's chronicle in certain places, and which have received dis- proportionate publicity on account of their current news interest.
The review deals faithfully with late on the extent to which malnu- the disturbances in Palestine and trition is a factor in ill-health and the
the unrest in the West Indian inefficiency in many parts of colonies, but it is amply justified Colonial Empire. in pointing out that if the popula- Hence the active interest taken tions of all territories in which in nutritional subjects. disturbances have occurred are added together, they amount to about 3,000,000, while populations totalling 56,000,000 have enjoyed undisturbed public security in the rest of the Colonial Empire.
Ceylon, for example, spent a mil- lion rupees on supplementary food for schoolchildren.
Welfare propaganda among the adult community was also carried out, and a number of new ration "In contrast with the distur- scales for labourers were intro- bances which have taken place induced.
ment.
of
so many parts of the world, the Nutrition committees were at history of the colonial depen- work during the year in most dencies, as of the whole British the colonial dependencies. Empire, has in the main been one Extraordinary results were ob- of constructive peaceful develop-tained from an experiment in nu- trition carried out among some 200 WELFARE OF PEOPLES
labourers of the Ruanda tribe, re- Indeed, in several instances the garded as poor in physique and in- security and peacefulness of Bri-efficient workers, who were employ- tish colonies have attracted great ed on the building of the numbers of refugees from neigh- Kampala railway station, bouring countries harassed by war Results showed that on good diet these people become as efficient as the best labourers drawn from Uganda.
or disturbances."
EDUCATION
new
What is brought out by this dis- passionate review of last year's events in the Colonial Empire, which runs to nearly 100 pages
In the chapter on education, Mr. and deals with each group of de-
Malcolm Macdonald (Colonies Se- pendencies separately, as well as
cretary) replies to a criticism some- each main aspect of colonial ad- times made of the educational po- ministration in over a dozen chap-licy in Africa to the effect that it ters, is that a major tendency in
is a mistake to spend so much on all dependencies has been the greatly increased concern for the higher education in a región which still needs a great deal more to be welfare of peoples.
done for primary and secondary education.
This has been manifest not 1.40 only in the attention given to the improvement of labour 8.35 conditions but in work for the wel- -13.00 fare of
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The Colonial Secretary writes: "It may be said that we are build- ing the peak of the pyramid before the base. I do not accept the me- taphor.
"Education in East Africa resem- bles rather a column not of static stone but of moving water ever ris- ing upward to the head of the foun- tain whence the column spreads out and returns to its first level, shed- ding over a wide area the refresh- ing waters of teaching ability, me- dical skill and technical know- ledge.
"Money spent wisely on higher education is in fact an essential contribution towards the spread of primary education.”
In that part of the statement which deals with trade it is shown of colonial products whole unfavourable, a marked effect on British revenues.
that prices were on the and this had Government Wireless.
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