§ 98. Mr. Errollasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will publish a list of the development schemes, including railway extensions, on which the U.S. geologists and geodetic engineers, now being recruited by his Department, are to be employed.
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Mr. Creech JonesApproval in principle has been given by the United States Economic Co-operation Administration to three proposals involving assistance from E.R.P. funds These are:
First, a proposal to employ 25 American geologists on a temporary basis to fill vacancies in the Colonial Geological Survey.
Secondly, a proposal to employ 24 to 30 American geodetic engineers to assist the Directorate of Colonial Surveys on ground control work in areas where air photography has been completed or is now in progress.
Thirdly, a proposal to employ under the auspices of the East African High Commission, some 20 engineers and seven consultants to survey, from the engineering and economic viewpoint, proposed routes for a rail link joining the Rhodesian and Tanganyikan railway systems, and possible routes between Broken Hill and the new port of Mikindani.
Further consideration is now being given by the United States authorities to the legal, financial and administrative implications of these proposals.