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CONTENTS

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TOPOGRAPHY ...                                       1

CLIMATE ...                                               1

CONSTITUTION AND HISTORY ...               2

ADMINISTRATION ...                  ...             4

IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ...                5

GENERAL CONDITIONS                             8

FARMING ...                                              26

MINING                                                    32

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT......               33

COMMUNICATIONS ...             ...              36

POPULATION                                           37

PRINCIPAL TOWNS...        ...                    38

GENERAL INDEX                                      53

Elephant in the Nsefu Game Camp

THIS BOOKLET

HAS BEEN PREPARED BY THE NORTHERN

RHODESIA INFORMATION DEPARTMENT AS

A BRIEF GUIDE FOR INTENDING SETTLERS.

IT MUST BE APPRECIATED THAT SOME OF

THE FACTS AND FIGURES GIVEN ARE SUBJECT

TO ALTERATION IN VIEW OF CHANGING

ECONOMIC FACTORS AND THE RAPID

DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY. UNLESS

OTHERWISE STATED, PRICES QUOTED ARE

BASED ON LUSAKA, THE CAPITAL OF

NORTHERN RHODESIA. THERE ARE LOCAL

VARIATIONS IN OTHER TOWNS.

THIS BOOKLET WAS

COMPILED IN

JANUARY,

1953