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MAY 18, 1961 EAST AFRICA AND RHODESIA 995BRIGADIER C. J. K. HILL
has arrived in London fromKenya.MR. [VOR LEAN, Q.c., is chairman of
the board ofinquiry set up by the Minister for Labour and Housingin
Kenya to investigate the recent strike of workers inthe grain
miUing industry. There are two other membersof the board, Messrs.
V. G. MATTHEWS and A. W.WABUTI. Th e secretary is MR. J. L.
WORDSWORTH.SIR CHARLES HAMBRO, who has been appointed chairman of
Hamlbros Bank, in succession to his late uncle,is chairman of Union
Corporation, Ltd., and a director
at the British South Africa Company, Cable and Wireless
(Holdings), Ltd., and Globe Telegraph & Trust Co.,Ltd . all of
which have large interests in Central Africa.MR. F. M. N. HEATH,
lately Acting Secretary in theMinistry of Native Affairs of
Northern Rhodesia, isnow acting as Resident Commissioner in
Barotseland,in succession to MR. GERVAS CLAY, who has retiredfrom
the Colonial Service and entered upon his newduties as director of
the Rhodes-Livingstone Museum.MR. LESLIE STEWART W ~ , who
commanded thepolice in Nairobi in 1953-55, at the height of the
MauMau rebellion. and has latterly been programme organ
izer to the Kenya Broadcasting Service, has been appointed an
Assistant Secretary in the Colonial Administrative Service, and in
that capacity will continue withthe K.B.S.SIR WAVELL WAKEFIELD,
M.P, who has visited Eastand Central Africa, and a friend in
Birmingham havebought the short Ravenglass -and Eskdale railway
inCumberland, one of England's few private railways.It has been
losing 2,000 to 3,000 a year, and has notbeen acquired for
financial reasons, but the purchasershope to bring it to a
self-supporting basis.The 103rd anniversary meeting of the U.M.e.A.
washeld in the Central Hall, Westminster, on Tuesdayevening. Th e
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK presided, andother speakers were the ARCHBISHOP
OF EAST AFRicA,
CANON G. W. BROOMFIELD, and MR. EDWARD MHlNA,chairman of the
House of Laity in the Diocese of S.W.Tanganyika.MR. Y. K. LULE,
lately Minister of Education andSocial Development in Uganda, has
been appointed by
'SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD, Governor of the Protectorate, to be
joint deputy chairman of the UgandaPublic Service Commission. He
will take up hisappointment on June 1. The intention is that he
shouldlater succeed SIR PETER G1JNNT1'IlG as chairman.MR. HUGH T.
WEEKS. sometime one of the joint controllers of the Colonial
Development Corporation.which he left to join the Trussed Concrete
Steel Co .Ltd .. the deputy chairmanship of which he resignedsome
months ago, has joined the board of Hadfields.Ltd. He is a director
of the Finance Corporation forIndustry and of the Industrial and
Commercial FinanceCorporation.
Passengers for Momhasa in the WARWICK CASTLE,now outward-bound
via the Mediterranean. includeMR. J. H. GAUNT, M.L.C., & MRS.
GAUNT, AIR VICEMARSHAL R. HARRISON, MR. & MRS. S. E. T.
JULLION,DR. J. PARKYN, MR. & MRS. T. G. THOMAS, and theREV. D.
C. WALSH. Those for Dar es Salaam includeDR. & MRS. O. S.
ANDERSEN, the REV. S. FLURY, theREV. L. KUSTER, MR . & MRS. H.
S. H. STANLEY, andMR. & MRS. J. H. S. TRANTER.
CARDINAL LAURIAN RUGAMBWA, the first African tobe made a
cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. hasleft his diocese of
Bukoba for Rome and the UniitedStates. He is to receive two
honorary degrees, ofDoctor of Law from Notre Dame University,
Indiana,and of Doctor of Letters from New R o ~ h e l l e
College,New York. f'ARnrNAT. Rnc.AMBWA e x n e c t ~ to he hack
in
DR. JAMES O. W. ANG'AWA, who for the past four'years has been on
the staff of the Port Reitz ChestHospital, Mombasa, is now medical
officer in charge ofthe South Hill Extension of King George VI
Hospital,Nairobi. in which poliomyelitis and chest and
infectiousdiseases are treated. DR. ANG'AWA, who joined the medical
department of Kenya in 1944, made a special studyof tuberculosis
and chest diseases at the Welsh NationalMedical School, Cardiff,
and the Pasteur Institute andC h i l d r e n ' s ~ Centre in Paris,
between September. 1959,and June of last year.MR. N. A.MoRLING has
retired from the parent boardof Turner & Newall Limited and
from the boards ofTurner Brothers Asbestos Co. Ltd., J. W. Roberts
Ltd .and Glass Fabrics Ltd., of which he was chairman.MR. G. S.
SUTCLIFFE. who is a member of the parentboard and was appointed to
the boards of the latterthree companies on July 1. 1960, will
assume the chairmanship thereof. Mr. 'Sutcliffe, who has been
chairmanof Ferodo Ltd., has retired from the board of thatcompany
and Mr. Morling, who was appointed to theboard on July 1, 1960. has
assumed the chairmanship.MR. A. L. CRAM, M.e., Senior Resident
Magistrate,Kenya, has been appointed a Puisne Judge. Nyasaland.Mr.
Alastair Lorimer Cram was born in Perth inAugust, 1909, and
educated at Perth Academy andEdinburgh University. He was in
private practice as asolicitor from 1934 to, 1939. when he
volunteered forArmy service. He was demobilized from the
SecondSpecial Air Service Regiment, in which he had risen tothe
rank of Captain, in 1945 and was admitted to theFaculty of
Advocates. Scotland, the following year. Hewas appointed a Resident
Magistrate, Kenya. in 1948and was promoted to his present post of
Senior Resident Magistrate in 1956.THE QUEEN has approved the
appointment of MR.D. W. CONROY, Solicitor-General, Kenya, to be
ChiefJustice, Northern Rhodesia, in succession to SIRGEORGE
PATERSON, who ,is retiring. Mr. Diarmaid William Conroy was born in
Wimbledon on December 22,1913, and was educated at Mount St. Mary's
Col1ege.He was called to the Bar (Grays Inn) in 1935 and servedin
the Army as a Major in the 1939-45 war. He becamea Crown Counsel in
Northern Rhodesia in February,1946 and was p r ~ m o t e d to Legal
Draughtsman in 1951.Transferred to Gibraltar the following years as
Attorney-General, he was appointed Solicitor-General, Kenyain
October 1955. He acted as conciliator in a n u m b ~ r of
industrial disputes on the Copperbelt between 1946and 1952 and was
sole commissioner to review CivilService salaries in Gibraltar in
1954.
ObituaryMR. PHILIP JAMES JOURDAN, who has died in CapeTown, aged
91. was private secretary to Cecil Rhodesfor nine years. He wrote
"Memoirs of Rhodes'sPrivate Life ".MAJOR-GENERAL BLAIR STIRLING
MOULD, D.S.O.,O.B.E., M.e., who has died at his home in
SouthernRhodesia, aged 64. served in the Indian Army in the1914-18
war and in 1936 became brigade major of the3rd (Jhelum) Infantry
Brigade. In the last- war he sawservice in Iraq, Iran, Syria, and
Italy. He retired in1948. He is survived by Mrs. Mould and a
daughter.MR. H. A. (" HAM") MACKENZIE, who has died inGrahamstown.
South Africa, joined the TreasuryDepartment of Uganda in 1907 and
later transferred
to the provincial administration. He served with theBaganda
Rifles in the 1914-18 war, and was later incharge of African labour
on the Uganda Railway Construction. He was a founder member and the
first
