The Products of Rhodesia 



The seat of the Government is at Salisbury. 

 Here resides the Administrator, who presides over 

 an Executive Council and a Legislative Council. 

 The whole of Rhodesia is under the administrative 

 control of the British South Africa Company, which 

 was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1889. 



The chief towns in Southern Rhodesia are 

 Salisbury, the capital, Umtali, and Victoria, situated 

 in Mashonaland, and Bulawayo and Gwelo in 

 Matabeleland. These towns are well furnished with 

 all necessaries and many of the luxuries of civiliza- 

 tion. They have their churches, schools, libraries, 

 banks, clubs, hospitals, hotels, boarding-houses, 

 public parks, and newspapers. Other townships are 

 rapidly growing up. 



All the principal places in Rhodesia are con- 

 nected with the postal, telegraph, and telephone 

 services, while the telegraph line has been carried 

 as far north as Udjidji on Lake Tanganyika. 

 There is & weekly mail to England. A reduction 

 in the postal charge from Rhodesia has been made 

 by the Company from 2^d. to id. the half ounce, 

 and comes into force on ist April this year (1911). 



The Administration is paying great attention to 

 the question of education, and throughout the 

 territory the standard is high for a young colony. 

 Fees are small, from ^3 per annum for kinder- 

 garten to 6 per annum for pupils in the higher 

 standards, while boarding terms range from about 

 ^50 a year. 



On September 3Oth, 1910, European children 

 attending twenty-four Government and aided schools 



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