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327. Cinema performances are presented by the Army Kinematograph Corporation. Showings take place not less than once a week, at some places twice a week, and shows are given in the forward areas as well as the bases. No charge is made to the staff for these performances.

328. Similar social activities took place on a comparable scale in the Southern Province.

Spiritual Life

329. The spiritual needs of the Christian communities were met by the Church Missionary Society, the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, and by the Roman Catholic Church. In Kongwa, a start was made on the building of a church by members of the staff, who are making themselves responsible for all costs.

330. On the Units at Kongwa the necessary facilities have been given to Africans working at catechists and teachers.

331. At Urambo contacts with African Christians were made by the Moravian Church, and at Ifunda by the Swedish Mission.

332. The Bishop in Central Tanganyika and his chaplains made periodic visits to Kongwa, Urambo and Ifunda. Similar visits were paid to the Southern Province areas by Archdeacon Capper, who lives in Lindi.

Information Division

333. A daily newspaper, the Kongwa Daily News, a roneoed journal of up to eight pages, is published each day by the Information Division and also a weekly news summary in Swahili. The monthly journal of the Overseas Food Corporation-"Our World"-began publication in East Africa in August, 1948. And in February, 1949, the publication of a Swahili monthly

"Watangulizi "-was started.

334. The Information Division is also responsible for the reception and care of visitors.

335. During the year these included members of the United Nations Trustee- ship Council's Visiting Mission to Tanganyika, the Rt. Hon. John Strachey, M.P.; Mr. D. R. Rees-Williams, M.P.; 'Mr. Anthony Hurd, M.P.; Mr. J. Henderson Stewart, M.P.; Mr. R. S. Hudson, M.P.; Earl de la Warr; Mr. John Hare, M.P.; Dr. Mont Follick, M.P.; Mr. W. T. Proctor, M.P. ; MM. P. Coleno and M. Rossin of the French Colonial Office (Agricultural Depart- ment); M. Pierre Staner, Director of Agriculture, Belgian Colonial Office; Dr. Bredo (International Locust Control); Mr. G. F. Clay, Agricultural Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies; Dr. C. G. Trapnell, Government Ecologist, N. Rhodesia; Sir William Gavin; Colonel E. S. Grogan; Mr. Julian D. Marks, Chairman, United Premier Oil Cake Co.; Professor G. E. Blackman; a Parliamentary Delegation consisting of Mr. J. B. Hynd, M.P., Mr. G. McAllister, M.P., Mr. W. H. Mainwaring, M.P., Brigadier Prior-Palmer, M.P., Mr. A. H. Skeffington, M.P., and Major S. Wingfield Digby, M.P.; and technicians and journalists, broadcasters and news reel representatives from Great Britain, South Africa, the United States of America, France, Belgium and Holland.

336. Aeercial film of the Groundnuts Scheme Of Harvest from

336. A film unit from "This Modern Age "- J. Arthur Rank organisa-

the Wilderness," which was released in Britain in December.

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