Page 156 Southern Province would have to wait until the completion of the railway then under construction from Mkwaya to Nachingwea, and Mkwaya itself improved as a temporary port by the provision of a second landing hard, three T head piers, a stacking ground, and the requisite number of cranes, plus a railway jetty.
122. It was also clear to the Corporation that major developments in the Southern Province and the consequent demands made by the exporting of crops, necessitated full use of at least one deep water berth at Mtwara, 23 well as a railway from Mtwara to the groundnut areas.
123. All the evidence showed quite clearly that a deep water berth at Mtwara could not possibly come into operation until the end of 1950 at the earliest. It was equally clear from the progress being made that the railway from Mtwara would be completed before the harbour work was finished. But as the harbour is the dominant factor, this would have been of no immediate benefit to the Corporation. On the other hand, the railway engineers estimated that the railway from Mtwara to Nachingwea would be finished by the spring of 1949, too late to affect the acreage which could be sown at the beginning of 1949. An oil pipeline from Mtwara to the Nachingwea area was being constructed. A contract for this work had been placed by the Managing Agency in 1947. By April, 1948, 70 per cent. of the material for it had been shipped or delivered.
A Year of Preparation
124. In view of all these circumstances, it was therefore decided to use 1949 in the planning of the work to be done in the following years, in the importation and distribution of stores, equipment and merchandise of all kinds, and in the erection of the necessary buildings, workshops, storage accommodation, schools, hospitals, and so on. In addition, 1949 was planned to provide the Corporation with a good deal of experience in the efficiency of the tractors and agricultural machinery destined for use in the Southern Province, and to undertaking a full survey of the original areas designated in the first two blocks as being likely to provide suitable land for oilseed production.
First Results
125. For experimental purposes however the efforts of the Corporation and the Contractors during the year resulted in the following:
(a) Clearing
Bush Flattening Windrowing or Piling Stumping Rooting
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640
350
640
(b) Planting. Five hundred and sixty-four acres were planted to a variety of groundnuts, sunflowers, maize, castor, safflower, sorghum and other crops on an experimental basis only.
(c) Heavy Tractors. At the end of March, 1949, there were 266 heavy
tractors in the Province, of which 154 were operative.
Staffs at March 31, 1949
(a) European Staff:
European staffs engaged in the Southern Province were :-
Corporation
Contractors
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