Hotels: The three biggest hotels are:— 
The Imperial, with 127 beds; daily rates from Shs. 22/50 to 
Shs. 37/50; breakfast, Shs. 4/-, lunch, Shs. 6/-, dinner, Shs. 7/50. 
Address: 6, Speke Road, P.O. Box 288, Tel. 2544. Telegrams: 
“IMPERIAL”. 
The Speke, with 44 beds; daily rates from Shs. 30/-; breakfast, 
Shs. 4/-, lunch, Shs. 5/50, dinner, Shs. 7/-. Address: 7, Shimoni 
Road, P.O. Box 1536, Tel. 2155. Telegrams: “SPEKE”. 
Silver Springs, with 72 beds; daily rates Shs. 29/80; breakfast, 
Shs. 3/50, lunch, Shs. 5/-, dinner, Shs. 6/50. Address: Port Bell 
Road, P.O. Box734, Tel. 84201. Telegrams: “SILVERSPRINGS”. 
Postal Rates: Letters, inland, U.K. and Commonwealth 20 
cents; postcards, inland 10 cents, U.K. and Commonwealth 15 
cents; air letters (on special forms) 50 cents. There is radio¬ 
telephone communication with the U.K. 
Currency l The unit of currency throughout East Africa is the 
shilling, which is divided into 100 cents. Twenty shillings = £1 
sterling. There are coins for 50 cents, 10 cents, 5 cents and I cent 
and notes for Shs. 5/-, 10/-, 20/-, and 100/-. 
Banks I There are branches of Barclays Bank (D.C. & O.), 
at 16, Kampala Road (P.O. Box 201, Tel. 2448); the National 
Bank of India, 45 Kampala Road, (P.O. Box 331, Tel. 2555), 
and the Standard Bank of South Africa, Speke Road, (P.O. 
Box 311, Tel. 2454). The banks are open from 8.30 a.m. to 
12.30 p.m. (Saturday to 11 a.m.). 
Sport: Kampala has one of the finest golf courses in Africa, 
running along the wooded Kitante Valley. Visiting players should 
contact the Secretary, Uganda Golf Club, Tel. 4076. The 
Victoria Nyanza Sailing Club (P.O. Box 1527) organises sailing 
events at Kazi, a few miles out of town. The Bamboo Grove 
Club at Silver Springs, (on the Port Bell Road, Tel. 84201) has 
an up-to-date swimming pool. 
Regular football matches are played at Nakivubo Stadium. 
The Kampala Sports Club provides facilities for tennis, squash, 
cricket and hockey, (Shimoni Road, Tel. 3480). 
Clubs: The principal social clubs are Kampala Club, (Ternan 
Avenue, Tel. 3653), Nakasero Club (Nakasero Lane, Tel. 2955) 
and the Goan Institute (Buganda Road, Tel. 2319.) 
Cinemas: There are three cinemas, the Odeon, Kampala Road, 
(Tel. 2221), the Globe, Kampala Road, (Tel. 3918) and the 
Central, Johnston Street, (Tel. 3548). 
Shop Hours: Weekdays, 8 a.m.—12.30 p.m. 2p.m.—5 p.m., 
Saturdays 8 a.m.—1 p.m. 
Regulations for Visitors: All persons entering Uganda 
must report to the Immigration Authorities; they must have certifi¬ 
cates of yellow fever inoculation and small pox vaccination. A visitor s 
pass is valid for three months and may be extended. Visitors may 
not take up employment without the permission of the Principal 
Immigration Officer. 
Further information may be obtained from the East Africa 
Tourist Travel Association, Shimoni Road, Tel. 2302 (tourist 
enquiries); the Town Clerk's Office, Tel. 2401; or the Depart¬ 
ment of Information, Coryndon Road, Tel. 3241 (general in¬ 
formation about Uganda). 
Produced by the East Africa Tourist Travel Association in collaboration with the 
Uganda Department of Information for the Kampala Municipal Council. 
Printed by East African Standard, Nairobi. 
The Town Hall 
Useful Addresses 
Visitors Information Bureau, East Africa Tourist Travel Associ¬ 
ation, Shimoni Road, Tel. 2302. 
Customs, Rosebury Road, Tel. 3967. 
East African Airways, Shimoni Road, Tel. 3777. 
Hospitals, Government African, Mulago Hill, Tel. 2491; 
Government European, Lugard Road, Tel. 2831; Government 
Asian, Lugard Road, Tel. 3784; Church Missionary Society, 
Mengo, Tel. 85222; Catholic, Nsambya, Tel. 4154. 
Immigration Office, Kampala Road, Tel. 2201. 
Kampala Municipality, ApoJo Kagwa Road, Tel. 2401. The 
Municipality maintains a lending and reference library which is 
open to visitors. 
Police Station, Kampala Road, Tel. 2424. 
Post Office, Kampala Road, Tel. 2964. 
Railway Station, Salisbury Road, Tel. 2532. 
Uganda Council of Voluntary Social Service, (includes most 
welfare organisations), P.O. Box 263. 
Uganda Council of Women, Queen’s Road, P.O. Box 1663. 
Uganda Herald, (thrice weekly English-language newspaper) 52, 
Kampala Road, Tel. 4169. 
Uganda Society, (has a comprehensive library of books on 
Uganda) 16 Nakasero Road, Tel. 2317. 
Jubilee Park 
K AMPALA—the name means “the hill of the antelope” 
—is at once the commercial capital of Uganda and the 
natural centre for the holiday maker. 
From here, if you are on business, you can reach every corner 
of the Protectorate; by a network of all-weather roads, by rail 
or by lake steamer from its Lake Victoria harbour at Port Bell, 
7 miles from the town. 
If on pleasure bent 
you can journey from 
Kampala to the fabul¬ 
ous Mountains of the 
Moon, with their per¬ 
petual snows; to the 
Queen Elizabeth Nat¬ 
ional Park, with its 
exciting variety of wild 
life; to the spectacular 
cataract of the Nile at 
Murchison Falls, or to 
the quiet, little known 
islands that dot Africa’s 
biggest lake. 
The High Court 
But Kampala is not just a stepping-off ground for other places; 
it is a town with a charm and interest peculiarly its own. 
Built on a series of rolling hills, affording magnificent views, 
the town is one of the pleasantest in Africa. Although only a 
few miles from the Equator it is never unpleasantly hot, thanks 
in part to its altitude of 3,800 feet, and in part to its nearness to 
Lake Victoria. Its climate resembles that of an English summer 
(except that the sun shines every day !) and the perpetual green of 
its open spaces, its lawns and its gardens, is singularly refreshing 
(and unexpected) to the traveller familiar only with the Africa 
of fiction. 
Kampala too is a healthy town, free from the malignant diseases 
commonly associated with the tropics. Vigorous and sustained 
preventive measures have all but eliminated malaria. 
The new building now going on—factories and offices, schools 
and clinics, houses and hotels: over £1 million worth—testifies 
to the town's prosperity; 
the rate of expansion can 
by measured by the in¬ 
crease in population from 
8,000 before the war to 
nearly 40,000 today (17,000 
Africans, 17,000 Asians, 
4,250 Europeans.) 
Under the guidance of 
an energetic and far-sight¬ 
ed Municipal Council, re¬ 
presentative of all com¬ 
munities, Kampala is rapid¬ 
ly becoming the garden 
city of the tropics. 
Makerere University College 
