I was fascinated by a certain Mrs Bartlett, an elderly Scottish settlers widow, who was steeped in scandal. [14][15], The emergence of Art Deco was closely connected with the rise in status of decorative artists, who until late in the 19th century were considered simply as artisans. Missouri River at Sunrise, Montana. The following evening we had supper at the Holloways whose house I much admired and found very homely and comfortable. Frequently I had to explain how little District Council money had been allocated for sport and the Nzega Welfare Centre. I then took a bath and put on my dressing gown to stroll around the hospital garden. I leapt in and was deposited at the GH front entrance. The dust rose high and covered everything; the men worked hard under the Mtemis eye, chanted in unison and perspired freely, some clearing the bush with pangas, others shovelling the loose earth into the karais with their jembes, others carrying full karais on their heads to the earth wall, and still others building the wall and compacting it solidly. Unfortunately it was treated as a poor relation and tended to be squeezed into the late afternoons which was a shame because it eventually turned out to be the most useful and important instruction that I received that year. The ship cruised down the west coast of Italy and sailed close enough for watchers on board early one morning to see flashes from the mouth of the volcano, Stromboli. Unlike the Nyamwezi of Nzega, the Zaramo had never been warriors nor warlike people; on the contrary they were peaceful and easy-going folk, loosely organised into clans and widely-extended families. I imagined her problem was under control, and we enjoyed an occasional cup of tea or evening meal together. Mswaki was the first chiefdom centre I reached, and here it was my task to call on the Zumbe and go round on an inspection with him, trying to look intelligent and say the right things as he took me around. The Mi'kmaq name for Halifax is Kjipuktuk, pronounced "che-book-took". I called on the Town Clerk at the Municipal Council, and went to Police Headquarters and round all the police outposts in the African areas; I visited the post offices in the town, went to the airport to see the airport manager, spent some time at the prison with the governor, and paid my first visit to the Tanganyika Broadcasting House to link the Administration with their management. Life, I judged, was likely to be most exciting there, while the need for help, guidance and leadership from people like myself was likely to be the greatest. Tony had persuaded TANU to condemn them, put twelve people in jail, and managed the Governors tour as if nothing had happened. On Saturday evenings, I used to walk round Nzega with a couple of constables. Originally known as the Devonshire Course, its purpose was stated to be: To give the Cadet a general background to the work which he is going to take up; to start him with a proper sense of proportion; to show him what to look out for in his apprentice tour and the significance of some of the things he may expect to see during it; and to give him the minimum of indispensable knowledge on which to start his career.. The new Halifax Central Library on Spring Garden Road has received accolades for its architecture and has been described as a new cultural locus, offering many community facilities including a 300-seat auditorium. The sands were generally deserted and the bathing over the broad coral reef was superb. One evening she served fish for supper which she had caught herself the previous autumn and cooked and it had as tender and delicate a flavour as if it had been taken out of the river that morning. It was located in her house at 16 rue Barbet de Jouy, in Paris, which was demolished in 1965. The harbour is also home to a public ferry service connecting downtown Halifax to two locations in Dartmouth. The most sophisticated night-spot in Dar at that time was the Aquarium, where we could dance a little; and the Yacht Club provided a delightful venue and good dancing from time to time through the summer months. In Tanganyika also, attacks did occur and precautions were taken to attempt to prevent its spread across the border. The Browns bungalow on Bongoyo Road in Oyster Bay was a cool, rambling place in a colourful garden. We quickly established a routine while sailing. I went out to tea with Alan Reese where I met a young policeman named Peter Mence who talked music; I went to the cinema with the Browns to see To Paris with Love with Alec Guinness; and I had tea with Mrs Keight at the British Council to meet some friendly Africans who knew Nzega. These were not onerous responsibilities, but inevitably arguments arose over the best properties, and it all meant more paper-work. All my early cases were reviewed by the DC and then by a High Court Judge in Mwanza. It was one among several that John had caused to be planted to show the village people how to grow the cotton bushes. The Handeni curtains looked good in their new home and Nzega shops made more in a delicate pink and greeny blue with black flashes to hang at the French windows leading on to the verandah. With many kind messages, she sent me through the post a rolled-up canvas with a picture she had painted at Glengarry in Scotland. In fact I heard no more, but I did not enjoy his visit. I broached the issue with Tim Harris, DPC, and he told me to write a paper outlining the problems and recommending solutions. Normally the short rains (called the vuli) fell in November, but that year the sky was overcast every day in September and the countryside was already showing green shoots. Among Christmas presents from the family were a selection of lampshades, one of which looked good on the light above the dining-room table while a frilly and flowery one graced my bedside lamp. John also introduced me to the squash court on my first Sunday and lent me a squash racquet from time to time. We visited several little villages and investigated the position of the crops - they were trying coffee - attendance at the schools, the success of their tax-collecting, and so forth, in very much the same routine that I had followed on safari in Nzega. The Kenya Africans came back with photographs. If this detail is found to be tedious, I ask forgiveness for the attempt to give a faithful account of the life of a young District Officer in a colony aspiring to independence. My mother was sad at losing both her sons on extended overseas tours at much the same time. The Father and the Son idea. Records show that we sent home by these means two thousand people a year over this period, but it did little good. They paid no tax, contributed nothing to their community, and were a burden on the law-abiding African citizens of the capital. Along the roadside, the children were naked and the women bare-breasted, carrying cans of water and foodstuffs on their heads - we were truly in Africa. The Liwali, Sheikh Hamed Salehe el-Busaidi, was an eminent Arab authority on the Koran and Muslim law. Joan asked me to write this for her. I then picked up a book and read until the mid-morning jab. The resulting explosion, the Halifax Explosion, devastated the Richmond District of Halifax, killing approximately 2,000 people and injuring nearly 9,000 others. Val Hurrell entered my life at that time. My appointment as a District Officer, Class III was confirmed in August 1959, two years after my arrival in the Territory, and my salary rose to 1,194 annually, of which 249 was called an Inducement Allowance. Kip was pleasant company and invited me to her flat near Selander Bridge on several occasions. In a final fling before the wedding, Alison and Julian threw a ball at Government House. Time after time he employed this litany as we visited each group of workers on the road, and I got very bored with his shouting. We made plans to go up to see him and his family over the October Bank Holiday weekend - indeed we got into the habit of calling on the Magnays if ever we had to go to Morogoro on business or pleasure in the following months. Then therell be something urgently wrong with the car that will demand Rogers permanent attention in the garage. Attached to a later letter was a note from his form mistress that he has never seemed a new boy - a very high commendation. I have recently re-read a handful of them in order to refresh my memory of the people, places and events of those days, and I gladly acknowledge my debt to these authors. Father Joseph from the Morogoro Mission had been treated for TB next door to me. It was good to escape from the pressure of work, and with great hopes, we packed up my safari kit and were driven down to Ulaya which was a thoroughly peaceful and restful place. I did not even know where the nearest doctor was to be found. We reckoned we had to tread a fine line between stirring up interest in the elections to ensure a good turn-out, and inflaming demands for faster progress. It was a wicked theft; the poor houseboy lost all his possessions and was stunned into the bargain; though I am sure the Holloways compensated him. I became very bored with my four walls and narrow bed. But I did not care; I never confessed to the doctors and was content to revert to the old messy regime of bathing in bed for a little longer. It was always a rather sordid affair, and I made sure it was done quickly with minimum fuss. The rules of the Salon indicated that only modern styles would be permitted. She had no feet, no hands and no face; she could not even sign the papers and receipt with a thumb print which was the normal custom among the illiterate. I sent him to hospital. It was used around the world to decorate the great movie palaces of the late 1920s and 1930s. They were very hospitable and I had meals over there that January, went to a dance they held in their home and went round the Vauxhall factory with John. My car had to be left in the workshop in Dar while the valves were reground and the station land-rover took me out for my next safari. He was followed by Joan Walton who told me over sherry that she had pressed Tony to send me on leave and Rex to send me to Tabora for an X-ray. I had expected to spend three years in Tanganyika and make a solid start to a career in the Colonial Administration. What on earth had I been doing? I was appointed to Handeni District in Tanga Province instead of the Southern Province. David took over the job of selling the boat and continued the bargaining on our behalf, but even he, with all his contacts, did not find it easy to attract buyers. After the September elections in Nzega, Peter Doole came down to Dar for two weeks holiday, leaving Tony Golding at the Boma on his own. We distinguished those who had paid tax from those who had not, those who had relatives in town from those on their own, those who had proper jobs from those living hand to mouth, and those who had somewhere to live from the homeless. Sadly the wireless went wrong very quickly and I had to ask him to hand it in for repair to Twentshes, the Philips agent in Dar. The bungalow that I inherited from Mike Ransome at Nzega was half a mile from the Boma and a good mile from Nzega township and the shops. Yet on this occasion, they helped me willingly, with sympathy and in a quiet and dignified way; they escorted me wherever I went and looked after me most hospitably. Ten police askaris joined us and patrolled the area all night, but without success. I handed over a little parcel of chocolates and she said in a strained and tired voice, Well, Dick. One of the dirtiest jobs I was given in my early days was to check the licences of the many old guns in the hands of local people. [119] He designed clothing cut along straight lines and constructed of rectangular motifs. I had no idea who he was; I had hoped to meet John Young himself who was a well-known and much admired DC with many mild eccentricities, notably his loathing of all officialdom. I later learned this was miombo woodland, which we all called simply the bush. Norman Macleod was to be Best Man, and wrote to invite me to Monduli on 11th September, when, as he put it, the lodge of haidhurus will be in solemn session - to do something social and anthropological as a prelude to the nuptials billed for the 12th.. The family was on the move. My father sent me occasional chatty inconsequential scrawls - generally about the television programme he was watching late in the evening; Liz and Margaret wrote from time to time, and my aunts sent me their local news. Interpretation was necessary from Arabic into Swahili and Swahili into English and took a long time. There were just three conditions. Art Deco combined modern styles with fine craftsmanship and rich materials. He looked very smart and told me news of the other Haidhuru who had disembarked with him - my married colleagues were happy because they had secured the Governors agreement to their wives coming out much earlier than originally expected. The office that he ran and where I was to work was situated half way along Acacia Avenue, the main shopping street, in the heart of Dar es Salaam, and surrounded by smart, modern, glass-fronted shops. He went sick again for two or three days, and was still off when I gave Bakari a break and looked after myself for a few days. The family lived in a rambling old bungalow on the Upanga Road near the Gymkhana Club only minutes by car from the office. During my first term, I rented digs in a quiet terraced house off Walton Road, up behind Worcester College and the Ashmolean. As these four wandered home, they began fighting and beat up one of their number so severely that when his body was found next day he was thought to have been run over by a lorry. Tony shot an elephant one June safari, and came back very pleased with himself. I went back to Zanzibar just once more. Gerald was a fine man with a wide experience,who could talk about anything and everything, and was always entertaining. When the sales were over, Peter, the Packers team and I lunched off lamb kebabs and maize cobs roasted over an open camp-fire - they were delicious, even though the meat was stringy and chewy, and often a bit charred. He had numerous qualifications, though still a young man. I was able to save a little money. There were two tables. As we drew near the Equator, it rained and grew much colder. We reached the bottom of the hills as dawn broke, and had all Sunday and Easter Monday there in the Forest Lodge beside a stream in a similar situation to that of Morningside. Not a whimper, still less a roar. We went on to a dance in the Sisters Mess as guests of Katie Kyle, when I meet all the Sisters off duty. It rattled and shook in all its joints over the bumpy and dusty road. Various interviews. Men had blood on their clothing; fingerprints were found all over the vehicle and in the blood on stones where the victim had died, but the villagers refused to cooperate with the police. The only trouble was the light - the best time to play was when the sun had gone down and it was cool for the hour before dark around seven oclock. Next morning, we found the ship half-empty and planned a safari to look at game in the Reserve up-country. I appreciated most a pillow that my mother had bought for me and shoved in the box at the last minute that turned out to make a real difference to my comfort in bed. I spent one morning dealing with an interesting case of an unlicensed firearm. This was history in the making. We climbed still higher in the land-rover and at the top of a steep incline drove on to a little plateau. The Hotel du Collectionneur, pavilion of the furniture manufacturer mile-Jacques Ruhlmann, designed by Pierre Patout. The Kavanagh building in Buenos Aires (1934), by Snchez, Lagos and de la Torre, was the tallest reinforced-concrete structure when it was completed, and is a notable example of late Art Deco style. [128][129] Wellington has retained a sizeable number of Art Deco buildings. In early January, however, we decided it was altogether too hot, and we gave our faithful Greyhound a complete overhaul. There were 15,000 exhibitors from twenty different countries, including Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the new Soviet Union. Apple no asume ninguna responsabilidad respecto a la seleccin, el rendimiento o el uso de los sitios web o los productos de terceros. He then told me that I was not after all to go to Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika. We went back to the hotel bar for a much-needed drink, and the little brutes escaped, so we never discovered the effect they would have had on the dancers; instead we drank and talked the night away. Hello, and welcome to Protocol Entertainment, your guide to the business of the gaming and media industries. Throughout my time at Acacia Avenue, I continued to meet them and try and persuade them to work together but it was very slow work. Paul Weller then came up and explained that Lady Turnbull was in bed with a strained back and wanted to see me upstairs. Illustration by Georges Barbier of a gown by Paquin (1914). The next three days I spent writing letters to clear up my affairs and tell family and friends the drastic change in all my plans. Apparently the lions started to roar again as soon as we left, but we had had enough; so I never saw a lion in Nzega and was sorely bitten for my pains. It was a messy and unhappy departure. Her biggest hit, "Flying On Your Own", was a crossover Top 40 hit in 1987 and was covered by Anne Murray. Peter and I spent the morning in a dusty market place surrounded by flies and biting insects, among a lot of healthy but dirty cattle, filthy skinny sheep, the ubiquitous goats, and scruffy peasant farmers selling them to dealers from Tanganyika Packers who bought them for slaughter and canning at their Dar es Salaam meat-packing factory. I broke my walking stick; Simon twisted an ankle; we got soaked twice over; yet it was a tremendously invigorating weekend. Soon after leaving Mswaki we came up with a road gang of twenty or so men repairing the roads. In August however I was given more of the normal DOs work, spending less time on the destitutes, and becoming a member of the hard-working team closely involved in sorting out the day-to-day problems of the city-dwellers and at the same time introducing them to self-government. We divided our forces; one team from the Boma started at the baraza in Ilala - a relatively new urban development, while others among us began at Makuti, a village within the ward known as Magomeni, which was an unplanned and much older area of high-density housing on the western side of the city. Id like to think that somewhere the decorations will be not as good as last year, and my presence will be missed thereby. After the Patersons had left on leave, Andrew took his place, but he too disappeared unexpectedly, summoned to attend a long conference in Morogoro, leaving me in sole charge of the District. I enjoyed the work though it was immensely time-consuming because most of the accused and witnesses spoke in their own language of Nyamwezi, and every word had to be interpreted into Swahili and then into English for my benefit. In Germany two variations of Art Deco flourished in the 1920s and 30s: The Neue Sachlichkeit style and Expressionist architecture. We finished the swimming pool at Easter, cemented a paddling pool for the children, built a containing wall, and put on a couple of coats of paint. The chairman of the Native Authority presided over the finance and tax offices at Kisarawe adjacent to the Boma and was styled Mtawala Mkuu (or Great Governor). At the same time I was asked to edit someone elses historical essay which had been poorly drafted and needed a good deal of rewriting; I welcomed the chance to use my brains a little and began to work closely with the Board Secretary. The police van was torn to pieces and shredded in the mobs fear and fury. Next morning after a hurried breakfast Nan first took her husband to the Boma, then her twins to school, and lastly me to the airport. The first was to a village called Sungwi to inspect the primary school and court house. They were kind-hearted and generous folk and entertained the rest of us at delightful evening parties. Parents of these schoolboys had to pay the considerable fee of Shs 250/=, with a minimum of Shs 100/= in cases of real hardship. Mr Dudbridge duly received two letters from the elders and councillors and one deputation of town elders asking that I should not be transferred. It is one of the finest building in the city, Sound Shell in Napier, New Zealand (1931), 1931 Art Deco facade of the Castlemaine Art Museum, architect Percy Meldrum, H. Orlando Dutton frieze, photographed in 2017, Holyman House in Launceston, Tasmania (1936). Grey with red upholstery, two doors and a folding rear seat, in excellent condition with 25,000 miles on the clock, the Hillman seemed to be an economical buy within my budget. Nan had been very kind to me when I had been in Handeni and I was delighted to hear of their arrival. I resumed my old Luton social life as a member of the Ace of Clubs and attended their January dance. We put down briefly in the middle of the night to refuel at Benghazi in Libya and again at Wadi Halfa in the Sudan. On Crown Service: a History of HM Colonial and Overseas Civil Services 1837-1997, Symbol Of Authority: The British District Officer in Africa, The Flags Changed at Midnight: Towards the Independence of Tanganyika, Forgotten Mandate: A British District Officer in Tanganyika, Brief Authority: A Memoir Of Colonial Administration In Tanganyika. He hated the jab and seemed to be worse afterwards than before. In each village I held the customary tax baraza with the Ndewa and elders. In the last hour of daylight, I accompanied Tony with a gun to the nearest stretch of water in the hope of catching a few ducks as they came in to settle down for the night, but had no luck on that trip - we saw a few partridges but they slipped away before we were ready for them. Tony on the other hand brought down three duck and a huge goose, which he was good enough to share with us when we got home and it was plucked for the table. The Halifax area has a variety of public spaces, ranging from urban gardens, public squares, expansive forested parks, and historic sites. Margaret and John were convinced we would enjoy the event and felt it would be impolite to refuse the grooms pressing invitation - it would be an insult if we didnt go - it would help race relations, etc. I took a lot of exercise and often got very wet in the marshes around the edges of some of these reservoirs, but with only one good eye, I shot few birds myself, although I seemed to put many more up for Tony or Peter to shoot. However I did not want to go too far away from home, and I did not consider seriously either the Far East or the Pacific Islands. Seven of us hired an enormous taxi and were driven all over the Rock. Learn about Cape Breton Islands first inhabitants the Mikmaq people - and the settlers that followed from England, France, Ireland and Scotland. He attacked furniture made only for the rich, and called upon designers to create furniture made with inexpensive materials and modern style, which ordinary people could afford. Breakfast at the flat cooked and served by Juma: grapefruit: bacon and a poached egg; Ryvita, butter and marmalade (I had run out of fresh bread). I met nothing but courtesy and helpfulness on the part of the local people during this tedious adventure. When I inspected their buildings properly, I found the drains in a bad state and in need of urgent attention. Stylized Floral motifs also dominated the work of Raoul Dufy and Paul Poiret, and in the furniture designs of J.E. These outcasts lived in complete isolation and enjoyed only rare contacts with the outside world such as the mission in which I took part. Once settled in, I had two projects; it had been decided to build a rest-house up there at Magindu and my job was to choose an airy, open site and mark out its foundations. It was at that moment that I gave up writing a diary - something I now deeply regret, but I had a mass of paper-work to sort out in order to put my financial affairs in order and I wanted to resume my regular weekly correspondence home and with Val. It flew low over the lake and bounced unpleasantly about in the warm air, but we soon touched down at Mwanza on the southern shore of the Lake. He said my blood count was 60, and told me to go back to work while he examined the other test results and spoke to the Tabora hospital. On the right was a murram track leading to an African village and on the left an open field with well cut grass surrounded by a circle of bungalows and the offices of the Boma. Out-rigger canoes - hollowed tree trunks with side floats - would be drawn up haphazardly on the sands, and naked black children would be playing with a battered old football among the dilapidated mud-walled huts. During the night after the row broke round my ears, I was woken at midnight by Susie howling outside my bedroom window. Bored and bitten we drove off in the early hours, leaving behind four terrified villagers in the valley to drive their cow home. The Rains had already started and the trees were in leaf; the country along the roadside was rich and green, and the air was pleasantly fresh. It delivered me shaken but safe to the Handeni Boma where a big mail awaited me, along with Audrey with startling news. I sent the group of tribesmen down in good order, but the driver took them to the District Office instead of the Prison. Our boat was Balliol IV (Balliol was a lot smaller a college than Johns and had only five boats on the river that summer whereas LMBC at Johns had eleven), and we started the May Races high up on the water in Division VI. The best thing about the whole trip was the present we were given of honey taken from bees in the tree next door to the one in which we had spent half a night. So we packed up our belongings, walked the four miles down to it, and sat beside it waiting as patiently as we could for the road to dry out enough for us to resume our journey. They were well-known as warriors - they had always been prominent in the police force and the army. There were lectures of general interest and periodic Club Nights when we watched films or simply chatted about our studies and this and that. I sat at a high table in the little court house and made several false starts at the job, perhaps because the Police Sergeant did not seem to realise what few powers I had and what little law I knew. It was all new to me and my knowledge of Swahili was still inadequate, but I kept my wits about me and we took lots of useful decisions. The hospital was only a stones throw from Karimjee Hall which was the venue for the Territorys Legco, the colonys fledgling parliament. The themes were usually selected by the patrons, not the artist. After World War I, exports of clothing and fabrics became one of the most important currency earners of France. St. Margaret's Bay was first settled by French-speaking Foreign Protestants at French Village, Nova Scotia who migrated from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia during the American Revolution. I started a correspondence with Mary Murray in Edinburgh, formerly of Girton, following her kindness in encouraging her friend, Alan Reese to visit me. She was above all a nice and easy person to talk with, and I always enjoyed her company. I made contact with a Mrs Krell, Secretary of the local Society for the Blind and offered to address hundreds of envelopes for her for an appeal, and ploughed through them during my long mornings in bed. I arrived in Nzega as they came back to soak the earth and turn the roads to mud. In the following few days I tried hard to carry on with work as usual. This was altogether a richer district than the one from which I had come. Milk at six cents a bottle was twice as expensive as we had known it in Tanga Province; tiny green bananas were two cents each, twice the Handeni price; bantam-size eggs were three cents each where they had been one cent each at Handeni; and so on across the board. This was one of those rare occasions when Peter and I wore grey suits during the day; and despite the heat, His Honour was dressed in gown and wig. Some cards from participating banks might not be supported in Apple Pay. So we had a hurried breakfast, made our goodbyes, and climbed with him down into a small boat that carried us to the jetty. CBC Radio has a major regional studio and there are also regional hubs for Rogers Radio and various private broadcast franchises, as well as a regional bureau for The Canadian Press/Broadcast News. I spent my first three mornings at Lushoto writing letters - thank-yous to people in Dar es Salaam, and reports of my whereabouts to my family and Val. I found to my consternation that I was to be left on my own in the Boma for the rest of the week while the PC and DC went round the District on safari, camping at a different village each night. Theatres were decorated with sculpture which illustrated music, dance, and excitement; power companies showed sunrises, the Chrysler building showed stylized hood ornaments; The friezes of Palais de la Porte Dore at the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition showed the faces of the different nationalities of French colonies. It was not the posh affair for the African elite that the Society had put on the previous December. In May, I began to entertain at home and repay just a little of the hospitality I was receiving. That apart, I enjoyed many rubbers and learnt a great deal about the game round their table. When my mother sent Mrs Shiel and me some money for little luxuries, I found that what I enjoyed most were flowers. It was a very sharp arrow and a very strong bow, normally used to kill small game for the pot or to frighten off baboons and wild pig from the growing crops. We found a delightful spot in a cove nestling between picturesque cliffs where the sun was warm although the water was surprisingly cold; and following a refreshing break we took a taxi back to the boat. Examples in Portugal are the Capitlio Theater (1931) and the den Cine-Theatre (1937) in Lisbon, the Rivoli Theater (1937) and the Coliseu (1941) in Porto and the Rosa Damasceno Theater (1937) in Santarm. We sat in the seats of honour on the dais and talked to the assembled local people on farming business, the need to build more dams to conserve water for their cattle, the need to plant short term millet at the end of the Rains, the need to pay taxes early, the need to get licences to move their cattle, and so on. This one is a thief, cried the appointed speaker, shouting angrily and pointing to the wretched old man. Clean out the roadside ditches. 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