Book Notes
| Published date | 01 December 1949 |
| Date | 01 December 1949 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.1949.tb02713.x |
Book
Notes
OFFICIAL
PUBLICATIONS
The Library
of
the Institute contains a growing collection of British Government
Publications.
Central Office of Information. Part 2.-Private business, with
Introducing West Africa. pp. 86. table of fees and index 1948.
Numerous illus
..
maD
.
1948. H.C. 17. pp. 320.
5s.
Among the more recent additions are
:
1s. 6d.
Brief account
of
social conditions,
including notes
on
local government.
Labour and trade union organisation in
the Federation of Malaya and
Singapore
:
report by
S.
S.
Awbery
and
F.
W.
Dalley. pp. 70. 1948.
5s.
(Colonial Mce No. 234.j
African labour efficiency survey, ed. by
C. H. Northcott. pp.
123.
1949.
2s.
Colonial Office. Colonial re-
search publications.
This
is
an important report of an
investigation into the social and econo-
mic conditions of more than 6,000
Africans employed by the Kenya and
Uganda Railway with a view to ascer-
taining efficiency, the factors which
affect it and the incentives that might
increase it. The enquiry, which was
planned to last
Srk
months only, was not
in any sense
an
investigation into the
efficiency
or
.policy of the Railway
Administration.
Agreement.
.
.
for the establishment of
the
Caribbean Commission,
Washington, 30th October, 1946.
Cmd. 7679. pp.
23.
1949. 6d.
(Foreign Office Treaty series No.
27 (1949.) (English, French and
Dutch texts.)
Agreement.
. .
for the establishment of
an International Authority for the
Ruhr, London, 28th April, 1949.
Cmd. 7685. pp. 27. 6d.. (Foreign
Office Treaty series No. 28 (1949).
)
(English and French texts.)
Smallholdings
:
first report of the Small-
holdings Advisory Council on the
Administration of part
IV.
of
the
Agriculture
Act,
1947. pp. 61.
1949,
Is.
3d.
Contains recommendations on the
general policy to be followed in the
administration and submits
a
Model
Tenancy Agreement.
Circulars and administrative memoranda
issued by the Ministry of Education,
during the period 1st April, 1947
to 31st March, 1948.
Electricity supply, 1946-47
:
return
of
engineering and financial statistics
relating to authorised undertakings
in Great Britain
for
the Year
1946-47.
pp.
LIX,
254. 1949.
Local Government financial statistics
1946-47. January. pp. 10. 3d.
London traffic
:
23rd annual report of the
London and Home Counties traffic
Advisory Committee for the year
New Towns
Act,
1946. Reports
of
the
Aycliffe, Crawley, Harlow, Hemel
Hempstead and Stevenage Develop-
ment Corporations for the period
ending 31st March, 1948. H.C.113
pp. 86. Plans.
I
1949. 1s. 6d.
These are the first reports in each
case and cover planning, public services,
labour, estates, staff, finances and ad-
ministration generally.
12s. 6d.
El
10s.
1947-48. pp. 31. 1949. 9d.
Report of the Committee on Police
conditions
of
service.
1.
Post Office
:
Commercial accounts,
1947-48. Accounts and balance
Cmd. 7674. pp.
IV.,
123. 1949. 2s. sheets for the year ended
31s+
Standing ordm of the House of Com- March, 1948. H.C.22. pp.
42
m'ons. Part 1. Public business. 1948. 9d.
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