South Africa

INTEREST. The production of copper in Northern Rhodesia. Welfare facilites provided for the mining communities, including the towns of Mufulira, N'Kana, Ndola and Chingola.

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The immediate post-war period saw the introduction of the ‘Ten Year Plan of Development and Welfare for Nigeria’ in 1946 and an increasing attempt by the British administration to establish import-substitution industries in Nigeria ...

... of the seedlings being prepared in the nursery and planted in the fields, the clone being grafted on and the production of sheet rubber. The welfare of the workers. The film ends on a gloomy note: "since the end of the Korean war prices have fallen and so ...

... throughout the world, Dunlop in Malaya prioritised the welfare work and progressive development programmes of the ... the colonial archive, which promote ideals of corporate welfare together with policies of colonial ‘development&rsquo ...

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An instructional film made on behalf of the Department of Social Welfare, demonstrating a new technique to teach English to illiterate ... ; such as the Police (‘Report on Department of Social Welfare and Community Development’, 1954, 15). The ...

Some aspects of Singapore's social welfare services in a story centred on Yoke Heng, whose parents enter a hospital. How he and his brothers and sisters are cared for until the family is reunited in a new municipal flat.

... 000 members of the Bakiga tribe to unoccupied fertile areas. Funded by the British taxpayer through the Colonial Development and Welfare Act, the move was presented as a case study of British development within African agricultural society. The new area ...

... which shows local children running to school. Once more, the film highlights here the broader social changes and welfare developments introduced by the British.

Tom Rice (April 2009)

‘They Planted a Stone&rsquo ...

Malaya

The welfare of the blind in Malaya: showing children at work and play in special schools for the blind; the training of blind craftmens; and the various occupations in which blind people are employed. The production of Braille reading matter, ...

Malaya

An account of welfare services and educational facilities available to the children of the Federation of Malaya. Ante- and post-natal clinics ensure a good start in life; and at school the children have every opportunity to develop their ...

... the ‘civilised’ nature of the security forces (paying due respect and drinking together). Further scenes highlight the welfare work of the British (‘the old and poor were not forgotten either and free meals were given to many’) and ...

... government emphasised both the operational success and the welfare developments provided through these forts. A newspaper ... Malaya and overseas. It highlights the proposed centrality of the welfare of the aborigines to its policies, showing the development ...