Empire Air Mail Scheme 1937 – From Bulawayo to London
Empire Air Mail Scheme 1937
Rhodesia & Nyasaland Airways/Imperial Airways
Southern Rhodesia Collector of Customs and Excise Acts 1937 – Customs and Excise Management Act Forms Form 23 – General Inland Removal Bond (Z.369) 1952.12 – 5796 Form 26 – General Bond on a Warehouse 1949.07 – 14230 Form 30 – General Rebate Bond (Z.370) 1951.06 – 2998
Real Photo Cards Type IJ FB
First Regular Mail Service to Cape Town 20 January – 2nd February 1932 Flight Details Operator: Imperial Airways Ltd Flight Plan First Flight Covers From Blantyre From Broken Hill From Bulawayo From Limbe From Mpika From Salisbury References Journal of the Rhodesian Study Circle No.117 FB
University College of Rhodesia & Nyasaland Salisbury In 1945, Manfred Hodson formed the Rhodesia University Association, inspired by the promise of £20,000 by J.F. Kapnek for establishing a university. The following year, the Legislative Assembly of Southern Rhodesia adopted a motion proposed by Hodson for the establishment of a university college to serve the needs of Rhodesia and neighbouring territories. In…
The Umtali Advertiser The Umtali Advertiser was the second newspaper to be launched in Southern Rhodesia and preceded The Buluwayo Chronicle. The first edition appeared on December 13, 1893. At the time Umtali was on its second site where Old Umtali Mission was later established on the Inyanga road. The newspaper was founded by a…
Howard Institute Howard Hospital A medical clinic with 15 beds was established at Howard Institute in 1928 by Adjutant Agatha Battersby, who had prior experience running a dispensary in South Africa. By 1930, under the leadership of S.R.N Mary I. Ryan, the clinic was treating nearly 2,000 out-patients. In 1939, Adjutant Isabel Sloman began a…