Description
Written journal produced by Wiiliam James Webb (Councillor and Mayor of Chatham 1919-20); he visited the Mroweka rubber plantation, Lindi District, German East Africa (now Tanzania); this period saw English capital being attracted to invest in rubber plantations; Mr webb's visit was a reconnaisance at the request of the proposed directors of a new company (later becoming the Mroweka Rubber Company); he has written 67 pages, covering various topics including: history, description, situation, boundaries, communications, area tenure & title, soil, cultivation, labour & wages, work classification, clearing, collecting & burning, holing measuring & seeding,weeding, tapping, washing drying & packing, cases, fundi (mechanics), clerks, boatmen, management, buildings, machinery, inventory, tools & stores, water supply, rainfall, temperature, leafing, pests, taxation, government laws & regulations, currency, weights & measures, transport, banking, medical, manures, insurance, nursery, pruning, native rubber, cost produce, accounts, general observations. Mr Webb also took images on his visit, recorded as A11158/6.
