Government Stationery: 78071
Government Stationery
78071
Details
- Date of Issue: 15 December 1941
- Dept: Government Printing Office
- Reqn.: 78071
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- Quantity: 50,000 labels
78071
Dutch Reformed Church Morgenster Mission Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) missionary, Andries Adriaan Louw, established DRC’s first mission station in Southern Rhodesia at Morgenster in 1891. Despite poor health and not yet being ordained, Louw was the only one to answer the call for missionaries by Reverend S.P. Helm following Helm’s exploratory trip to Mashonaland the…
Halsted & Co Ltd Bulawayo The first Halsted trading business was opened in Bulawayo in 1897 by Major C W Halsted under the name of Halsted and Webb. With the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer war in 1899, Major Halsted closed that business and spent the next 3 years fighting with the British forces. At the…
Derry & Lewis and Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co Salisbury Derry & Lewis and Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co was an accounting business based in Salisbury. Contributors James Gavin FB
Southern Rhodesia Defence Act 1926 The 1926 Defence Act stipulated compulsory military call up for all European males from the age of 18 years. It made provision to establish a permanent territorial force in the form of two battalions and cadet corp. Stationery 1933 – 40074A References Bush War Rhodesia 1966-1980, Volume 17 – Peter…
Joseph Lazarus Joseph Lazarus first arrived in Barberton, South Africa during the gold boom from Britain and established J & M Lazarus, with his brother Marucie, in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa in 1899. Their last advertisement appears in 1907, although their box number is still listed in the 1909 edition. They sold their studio…
Salisbury Board of Executors Ltd Salisbury The Salisbury Board of Executors Ltd was established in 1895. The Board was responsible for the purchase and sales of houses, farms, businesses and other property; the administration of estates and trusts, the management of affairs of residents and non-residents; the collection of rents and management of property; the…