Revenue: Scanlen & Holderness – Receipt
Scanlen & Holderness
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Queens Mine Bubi District Queen’s Mine is a village 34 miles (55-km) NE of Bulawayo that grew up around the now closed Queen’s Mine. It derived its name from the nearby Ndebele queen’s kraal. The gold mine was pegged on the site of ancient diggings in 1893 just prior to the Matabele Rebellion. There are…
Mount Selinda Mission Medical Department Medical work began at Mount Selinda in the mission’s first year with the opening of a dispensary by Dr. W. L Thompson in 1893. It was the first permanent missionary medical mission staffed by a medical doctor in Southern Rhodesia. The dispensary became a full-fledged hospital in 1912. Dr. Willis…
Southern Rhodesia Customs and Excise Management Act 1937 On 2 June 1939, several changes were made to Customers and Excise Management Act 1937. The Government Gazette announced several changes in the standard form of invoice and certificate of value required on all shipments of merchandise from foreign countries to Southern Rhodesia. The principal change was…
Vacuum Oil Company of South Africa Ltd Vacuum Oil was founded in 1866 by Matthew Ewing and Hiram Bond Everest, of Rochester, New York. Lubrication oil was an accidental discovery while attempting to distil kerosene. Everest noted the residue from the extraction was suitable as a lubricant. Soon after, the product became popular for use in steam engines and internal-combustion…
E. T. Brown Type V – Pungwe Falls – Inyanga – Southern Rhodesia
Percy M Clark A.R.P.S. Type II (Coloured) FB