The Forestry Adviser's Visit to Tanganyika

Abstract

The colonial development plans which were put into effect was stimulated interest in the' work of the territorial departments, and the policy was adopted that advisers to the Secretary of State should have closer contact with the 'workers in the Colonial Empire. This principle was welcomed by technical officers in the Colonial Service, who felt in the past that their work was being collated and criticized in London by men who had great difficulty in appreciating the conditions under which the work was being carried out. Thus the visit to East Africa of Mr. W. A. Robertson, Forestry Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, gave officers of the Forestry Departments an opportunity to put their problems to a man of wide experience and to explain and demonstrate the difficulties which they meet in the course of their work.