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WHITEHALL.
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\i ;., ixt- qnote Regd. Ko.
Dear Bottom ley,
Se hive considered tlie pro-poaale contained In ■'. v the draft latter, enclosed with your letter of t.he lat^ instant, as to the estalsllshtoent in this country of an - Baat African Trade and Information Bureau.
Tie are willing to agree in principle to the establishment of-an office, or the lines proposed for an experimental period of two years, at the end of which., period we oor.cider that the matter should bs reTiewed, in regard to the pethods of oo-operatlo!i with the Pepartir.ent of CTerseaa Trade, and no doubt also from the point of vie-wof the contributing protectorates.
This is of course subject to their shares oT the cost being forthcoming from the Territories concerned.
So far as concerns the Territories where fine-nces are subject to Treasury control.we shall not object to a ■
charge on their fund*.
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Tiia - -.’1 '•:.'ottomley Esq., r
Colonlal Office.C.M.8.V.OJ.B.I5., :
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........'•'-^■'ihe detallB of:^iia'‘-Bch^ai)ioli07eT seem to
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V',us to req'jlre .revisibn/
Ff!erctii Golor-el Jranilln should divide his time tetween,
We asree that the arrangement
;:alrvhi,.aiid London is probably the best way of inaugurating office Duocesofully, t:.cu,;h experience alone oan
tils r-lat, ie -o.e 'oest pennanent arrangement.•the new
•cecide ri-ether
But we see no reeaon at all :v..y thle officer should have
ile won't do :r,ore work In the voyuses in the year end he
,f hip days at home instead of In
■'hja e-r.olupouta Increasec.
Bgt;r,ei:a--e Jitb two p’wlll -in fact spend more
the trpplc;-. .
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4."We Incline to thkit that you-could get-ar. office
.1 demand nor a good position for a IIo doubt the
;B'boul '.e -j *
de&l less figure proposed,of I'orke would te willing •to sssiet yon on thlp -Office
On a nucii-stkftller point, -the usual rates for/ i' V ^ It ■ ' '
■:' ^P*,t«n t ■■ aho rthan d t jti i a teto Judce’''. ether tne
for tb^.Be^l and Office Superintendent J^Inore than le reasonablt.
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K\are welf telow £200: ’W-do act . yt
f!.lrly, hKr- Balarlas •’ .
are no '•f"''i
Youra sincerely.
s-
t^j^^ear Craig,;.•-- ■
I have your letter^if-taieJ|
lilet of *.;ay about the S^t &frlcaa:- ’̂, , * '■
I'rade and ’Inferniation ■^reau. ,DRAFT. -^7^ r'Vi-ya^
.. CiiAIG. Eb... »e see no objeotloii;,$o tl|_e
emplated beingI
errangemejat,
4l'for two
7Kpie first InstaBse'-
^ '80 for u8 the methods of oo-operation
MINUTE.
j/r. Bc:rcj:iEY. ^ 3/t,/i^of the Overseas Irade are oonoerned,
4^2s' 17 confident that .jbod we aye_Ui
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from the point of slew of-'*he oon-
t 1tributiiaf protectorates th|^ reoK^ii- 1
0.
••ir 9. Orindl^
Smith.
eideratioil vrili not ^ffect the positia^
iiiDaterLt.llj,ae tie value of the work of|
the Bureau is likely to iare .been ■ f*■ f ■:.'.v..^ V-■- I"
^eat6bliBhed by thek.;■i"-.
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us over the «embl#y "- ' ' V, '■
0, •jp^rposesto ut-or^'(•«
r;!rle tima, in ihidih tperi d. und 6 i.ixve
i,
\ to ±'ii.d t. permaneiit of floe without having•.'‘ tliSt jrota win not
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v' C . "ASa the^itwr,hut I thelrtre that th«y/^ld wltii'a.'
L^..^''.'"‘'■'r 7--y;r^
AS regards themuah for it.to pay to
■rksalaries 'vhiah .’-e ht*ve put doiti^ the^ err
f safety, and e must seeori the eiie ^i- ■r'!w
Pwhat V.-6 cai: get i'-r our money; but I think ■■;■
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id,'>‘.;-abandwB the obtaining coioidt-t
f «<»I*ned ti.^- -j‘ft the senior menbers^of who I.that for u stu
1 ability ajid'themet have a high ordery
w^M to^^r
id-th/eOnMtUenoe, a* >n *Ua ' '
oo ..InlWi- **”**^^15^ 1
f soresthlngji.iiior'members be oa>- :. le
Ihe amountJreara.'that. UiUTT routine worA,
m jnliVd'*c.^fii2£^ be ex&eeslve. *-•pro. I- i•A V 'mm*hi8. leaves th-i tiuestiou of 'it- ,-• v'.
*.. i'i-’AraBhlia; to be de.ajt with end
'-VvC , ■ ;i. ASjuy that I siU'-U'id all ■C?"'>.■
ii'-." ?IP m:.i‘C■?• .5 .. io?,:B-hjib»Ai»^' fot' t»«;aohene -f ' i t v.'ere
w'•nd^e^BSdry ilp ash him tp ttfederlake the '■' H> 'i 1i> '' " '
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^ i» 'W ish* «fa*Utt(r. «a l IM** « «•3«lt /BU tour ttoft •tti- PMPMWI. Mr» fcalaa wot te
to too with • •••1-ofrioloI l*tt«r/««i tbo flMmitopj of 8t«to to too totowollo* of too
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(Signed* W C. BOTTOMLEY,
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latt6^’i;2COO'a /BAT-is' tile -least,we' ■' ■',. '■■'/' ■:;
oouH offer to obtain the kind of
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H. ■ ■•■ Deling ,-Sta«*t, .-'y, ..^..;.. ..r.:: ^ '* "*i'C>ar.t. I undyretari'i liie Treasury DRAFT."
iv.'V.^1:ithink £600 a year onouj^.-i, nut I fear 13 SECBBTART,
TREASUR?.siB.; inni7' .S
Lhi^t If triat :s forced on ^e, the whole ObI am dirfetea by Ipp Ssoretary Aieiyitof #
rwiaest yoa to inform the lords Comilssioner* of th*
Treasary that, during the last -a f fee years, thaf
Seeretary of State .for the Colonies has beeii urged----- ■ H
^ ^ SoreimsBt ef Kenya to approre ef espdnditi'X - '
g for the purpos* of.-establishing, an *ffio«1n this
country which will adsiss enepjirers aa to ppportunj.;^' ' Mties in last Africa for British trade, and- eeltlarttp
<5,^ and whioh will-generally oneoorage the devajopmeiit^
' .dl of} fatt Jifriaa by making its products and possibi-
.7iiiies.moro-.«idaly known, in this country.
--flonem-A of wpiqij i h.',ve great r.opeii may iI•? .
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•mt . ' It will be obaorred
:yte}^i«W ;aq»emerit
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in the matter htttvbitn .from h■ ['.*: •./: Kenya, -..^dr-ilomnisaion are wtrongly.-of.epif^a^,?■ , ' ■> , ' . ,'■- - •
that its value will'be genet*! to the wholw of'
>
.feet Africa, and in thia-opinion the Secretary of *,
•V.State coHcura.
-a'-
'••rThe project haa been pressed on the3.
Secretary of State by the aovemment of Kenya, -both in connection with the opening of the
!Vt British ihipyre Exhibition last year and in con-tfl-
; t
nectior. witli ite revival in 1925. On the firstP4*iv
ocoaexon, the OorernmeBt of Kenya were pressed to
participate in the Exhibition, and to leave over
I the establishment of an office in London for
i-^ further oonsideratipn when the proposal had been
^^re fully worked out./;/
On the second occasion,
ibhe oonaent of Kenya to participate in the Exhibition5- ■
dafputely ceupled with the establish*
i^n|. oltjaia office arid the Secretary of .State agreed
r.''It iw otviouw
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tir*8 of thd Dwpwrhwiit «f 0»«r#eai Twdo,
foilowlnftflpon ttiB roosuMndationa mai^ hy '
the feet Africa OoamieBioa; i’ am to request
you to, put before Their hordehipa the
' aa^oipwins propoaala for tho establiahnent
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' of the Office.
• (1) The- Secretary of State attaches
the greateet importance to making use in
this Blatter of the experience of Lieutenant
Colonel W. H. franklin. Hia Majesty's Trade
Coanisaioner in Jhst Africa, and the connec-
tions ahioh he has already established with
persons in, this qduntfy tho are interealed
>in the trade in Shst African prodhjsi^c.It .f!
is recognised, that the expenditure ini oeni
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1 '* W " rteotion.with Colonel franklin's present
appoii^ii^Si
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ture in oonneotion *itJi
■'■ must be met from Siet ^Bioan-finidB.. Af^er.s»b^,
, . 'wpeW^l^ lii'
.¥8^i^*nt8 y"
in the*'nature of a .reimbuTBenupnt to that
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'’rr^'propoeed. and .yiVw^Jl^lSnal^
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{Zi With regard to the persoijal ohargeaBultation with the Department of OierBwiB Trade,
in connection with an Baot Africa Office init is proposed that the preBW^ iSlyief Clerh at
London, Sast African funds will Bear a..• \ ;Nairobi should be made a Deputy '^^ tii Trade
Conmiasioner, and that he ehould receive from
feist African funds a non-penslonable allowance
nwr-peneionable allowance of £900 per annum
to Colonel franklin and the following eteirgea
(which are neossaarily provisioial until/it-tho-rate of £250j^in respect of his extra res-
ponsibilitiea. An additional clerk will be neoes-the actual selection of candidates can be4takpn up) for hia Staff:
■ aary at Nairobi and hia salary {eatimated-provi-Deputy to Colonel franklin Office Superintendent 2 Stenographers Commiaaionaire
£1,000 p.a.j £600 io £700 p.a
£d00 p.a. £160 p.a.
V eionally at £400 inclusive), will also be a charge
It ia proposed that theon feat Africa funds. i
additional passage expenses whioh will arise through(3) On the above basis, the personal
charges to be borne by feat Africa wilillhe, J,' ■ ‘-V;
eSy^por annufli. < 14 is.efltioipated that
Colonel Franklin travelling between feat Africa and
Vthis country every year, should be met by the pay-Kb
O'r.’lEient'.bf ,£^0 annually from feat African funds, which,the charges for pristine, adverttaing.
in ■yie opinion of the Department of Overeeae Trade,
■'A- -
Vll^, be Sijyrfi(p:ient to cover the extra cost. 4»-. ■'t .J•9
. p.^ rates, lighting.is
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pf Hprtharn Rhfcd«iia..;^»a exprsB*^ ttei^|^ insist,that the' office etioul#■-'-.r'.}. ■
the Government of Kenya?t.
be »Ti ae good poaition ae poaaible and the
■fepte for Buch aooommodation are very,high. *^he
' ■ natter is atill under enquiry, but, for present
■•*■
whether their iBteretta'iteuld'-benefit
sufficiently by the-scheme to jijstify a contTi:
its cost. _Mr. Amery ponsiders
that it would be regrettable, even if tt
were possible in practice, that any part of
\ bution ti
purposes, it may be assumed that the charges on
'this account will be between £4,000 and £5,000•V
■ per annum. the East African group should be left out, hut
for the present he is not prepared to ask
that Korthem, Rhodesia should make any
The Government of the Colony of Kenya(4)
is prepared to contribute £5,000 per annum for con’
this Bsrvioo, and the Uganda Railway hawtagreed triijuiion.' That Protectorate will have the
4tff contribute one-quarter of the ooet of the
service up to the maximun; of £2,500 per annum.
benefit of the services of the Office, but
will not contribute until the value of thosei'V • /. «The Government of Uganda have agreed to partioi- services and the financial position of the
pats in the scheme provided that other Deponden- Prptectorate oan be shown to justify such
ciee than Kenya also participate, and it is oon- oontribution.
eidered that the contribution of £1,000 per annum, The Governor of Tan^nyika has ,4®
thht Territal^ii#®tlf''■ ■ ■ V''
suggested in the Commission's report will be suit- expressed a doubt whether
The Gov Zanzibar have agreed to■ able. derive any real benefit from the BbKfema, but.. <v
participate to the extant of an omwai contribution his view would app^ b^.a fpped
V ' Wressioa^.iSiB^i'^JCen^ proi^
\ ^ W ont fw-^ttj^tiiSg.prospe^ive settlers .
' f.. of !SfO. TheGovemmsnt of Nyasaland have weVoomsd
of £20& from Nyasaland will^i^^y
,|w(;tified by the assistance which the Protec^ratii
th^t a contra*.< ••
iS
■y: 'P-'i'..<11'
TO .'u --■ “ :■-' ci-^M
' a ios^pty, a .ervioe whiolj .ouU
)J, rffc great application in tW ^ ^
Tanganyika, After thel diBoueeion. whioK ''
with Colonel Franklin an*;th«
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kf-,the Tanganyika ehayo should ha jslt at now
- -•V,-ooet of the office./-
•V -' . ', *-•taken place
' :i)epartment of AvorehaB Trade. Ur.Amery ie con
vinced not only that the no* office would be of
,,ijsiv -
■ \ which, it will be obBerved"^
makeB £10,000 in all.(*
steadily increasing eervice to Tanganyika in
bringing to notice ite great pocsiliilitai®
interesting British g^it^ ^
{5^ The BUB of £10,000 .per annttn
will. on the outline of expenditure giyen
in this letter, be euffioient to cover allproducticn and in
for itB development, but also that in the pAc-
tioal working of the Office it would not be
possible to diatin^iah between Tan^nyika and
the older Dependencies in Baat Africa. Actually,
the BUff of the Office would be coapelled to
in matters relating to Tar,ganyika
the expenditure in connection with the
maintenance of the office. Ur. Amery would
4 propose that the contributions for the
first year should run from the beginning
of the financial year of each Dependency
concerned. In this way, a Bias over and
above the current expenses will be
available towards the initial cost
assist enquirers
to the beet of their ability, and it ie essential,fl ■ ■
therefore, that they should be as fully in
touch with the Goverrment of that Territory
and poasese as complets a knowledge of its
j.; , pxogre**’ and proapeots as in the case of the
Dependencie^ In deference
establishing the office.
He trusts that he may have Their
Lordship's approval to the creatiop
eerrlcf which, in Mb ppinlcn: i« alr*»dy
Africa*, ir ^
S',Ax
to tha.yieWB' i ir." '.:Othfer -s' ■■- • •■?■' ••
the Ooverruirr ..however,. Ur.teery, does npt
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