Livingstone, Aug. 30. a cost estimated ty be £976,000 the British Government have decided to remove the Administrative Head quarters of Northern Rhodesia from wgstone to a site just east of Lusaka, which is much nearc™ the Copper' Mines than the present The Governor (Sir James Max. well) anounced, the Government's decision when the interim Cou The Chief Secretary gave notice Jof motion to authorise the spending of £50,000 on preliminary works.
'The Technical Advisers of the Office in their repor', whick laid on the table of the House, Jestimate that an expenditure of be required for the new' site, water supply, sewerage, roads, electric light, ete. The gineers, investi ted' two. sites. but elected that East of -Lus preference to one at Ni Siding.
'Lusaka, they pointed out, is al+ ready well established' town, equipped with stores, Banks and hotels, and has a constant influx of visitors as it lies across the Great North Road.
No doubt the Colonial Office were influenced in making their decision the Reich should neither make nor intuenced ig state of Northern receive any payments under any In these days Jagreements resulting from the war. fof deficits, and despite the fact that [This thesis is hotly contested here the slump in copper prices has in political quarters, where it is egused a" curtailment in mineral Jpointed out that Germany despite development in the colony, Northern. the Hoover Plan is still meeting Rhodesia during the financial year certain of her obligations, as Yor instance her payments, to Belgium Jended March $1, showed, a sat plus fof. £125,000 over expenditure, under the ea-called Mark Agreement, total amount of revenue being under which Belgium is being re-' £880,000.
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