Transport in Africa. East African Commission’s Recommendations, British Cotton Growing Association Publications Series, 90 (Manchester: British Cotton Growing Association, 1925).

This chapter is a compilation of East Africa Commission’s recommendations of £10,000,000 loan for transport in Africa. East African cotton planters are ahead of available cotton transport, and there is a grave danger that increased efforts of putting further land under cultivation may be delayed. The report was considered by the Committee on Industry and Trade, who were so impressed by it that on July 2nd, 1925, they sent a memorandum to the Prime Minister strongly supporting the proposals on the ground amongst others that ‘British Industry, and in particular British export trade, would derive very considerable benefit from the development.’ The Committee on Industry and Trade, submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister in the early part of July of this year, in which they made a recommendation that British industry would derive very great benefit from the development of the East Africa cotton-growing industry, for the encouragement of which the primary need is transport.