Johnson & Fletcher Ltd.: Gatooma
Johnson & Fletcher Ltd.
Gatooma
Gregory Salzman Ltd. Salisbury Gregory Salzman Ltd was a British owned tobacco merchant company. It was purchased by Rhodesian tobacco farmers Anthony Charles Blair Taberer and his father, Tony Taberer during the 1960’s and became Tabex. Contributors James Gavin Walter Herdzik FB
Duly & Co Ltd Bulawayo (Head Office)
Nyadiri Girls School While Dr. Samuel Gurney was constructing a hospital, he also built a residence for missionaries from the Methodists Women’s Foreign Missionary Society (WFMS). In March 1924, three women were appointed to Nyadiri “to open the Women’s work” (teaching, healing and evangelizing girls and women) – Misses F. Quinton, G. Clark and B….
Churches of Christ Namwianga Mission Namwianga Mission was founded near Kaloma, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) by Churches of Christ missionaries Dow and Helen (Alice) Merritt in 1932 (the Merritt’s first arrived in 1926). Encompassing 6,000 acres, the mission originally consisted of three separate farms that were consolidated during the 1940s and 1950s. The mission began primary…
John Walter Soper Type III FB
Natural Resources Board Salisbury In 1939, the Natural Resources Commission released a report into the state of the agrarian sector. The report revealed that much of the colony’s prime agricultural land had been deeply affected by erosion, and in some areas, beyond repair. The Commission recommended that the Government enact legislation and a governing body…