Uganda Under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1903-1961 - Volumes
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Social Services, 1908-1961
As late as the early twenties the missions were, apart from a small grant from the government, entirely responsible for the provision of education in Uganda. In 1925 a Department of Education was set up. Working in co-operation with the Missions, the new department was responsible for an inspectorate of what still remained the Missions' schools. In the following year, the Government secured the means of determining the educational policy... Read more →
Transport and Public Works, 1912-1961
Records relating to the Railway cover its management by the Uganda Railway Administration, between its establishment in Uganda in 1912 and the establishment of the Kenya and Uganda Railways and HarboursOrganisation in 1926. The latter department was headquartered in Nairobi which excludes that department from the purview of this resource. The Department of Public Works was one of the first to be established and was created in 1900/01. The Department... Read more →
Trade and Commerce, 1910-1961
From 1901 until 1909, the whole of the customs collected at Mombasa was appropriated to the East Africa Protectorate. Thereafter, Uganda receivedher share and in 1912 established her own Customs Department, where the Director of Customs was responsible for preparing an annual Trade Report.In 1917, the Customs Departments of the two territories were amalgamated, the Chief Commissioner of Customs at Mombasa publishing until 1948 an Annual Trade Report for Kenya... Read more →
Development Corporation and Boards, 1948-1961
In the years following the second world war, the Uganda Government embarked upon a policy of the intensive development of the Protectorate's economic resources through the medium of quasi-government boards. This policy reached its climax with the establishment in 1952 of the Uganda Development Corporation under the Uganda Development Corporation Act passed in that year. The purpose of the Corporation was to participate in the industrial and economic development of... Read more →
