Liaison between Urban and Rural Authorities
| Date | 01 October 1958 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/j.1099-162X.1958.tb01184.x |
| Published date | 01 October 1958 |
Liaison
between
Urban
and Rural Authorities
SECTION
XIIl
128.
The
situation
regarding
liaison between
urban
and
rural
authorities
in
the
larger
territories
with
which we
are
concerned
is as follows:
(i)
KENYA
In
Kenya
the policy is to
have
cross
membership
between local
government
bodies.
For
example,
Nairobi
City
Council has two representatives on the
Nairobi
County
Council
and
vice versa.
The
smaller towns
arc
or will be the lower tier in a two-tier
system
under
County
Councils
and
African District Councils. Liaison between
migrant
workers in
the
towns
and
their
rural
areas is
maintained
by means
of
tribal
associations, visits by chiefs
and
other
prominent
persons,
vernacular
newspapers
and
broadcasts.
In
Mombasa
the
peri-urban
areas
are
within the
municipal
boundaries
so
that
there
is no question
of
conflicting interests,
and
second-tier
authorities
will
only be
introduced
if they
are
asked for by the local residents.
(ii)
UGANDA
In
Uganda
there
is no real cleavage between town
and
country
since the
power
and
influence
of
the
Native
Authorities extends
into
the towns
and
they
are
represented
on
Municipal
Councils
and
township authorities. Liaison between
migrant
workers
and
their
home
area
is
maintained
by similar methods to those
adopted
in
Kenya.
It
is of interest
that
the Belgian
Congo
authorities
keep
an
administrative
office in
Kampala
to
maintain
liaison between the
Ruanda
Urundi
Africans living
there
and
their
home
area.
(iii)
TANGANYIKA
In
Tanganyika
the towns
and
minor
settlements merge with the
adjoining
rural
areas.
There
is economic
and
social intercourse between them,
and
the
Town
and
Country
Planning
Ordinance
is being
applied
progressively to the
larger
towns
and
their
environs by the
appointment
of
either
asingle
planning
committee
for
both
the
urban
and
peri-urban
areas or
of
a
separate
committee
for the
peri-urban
area
on which
both
the
urban
and
rural
local
authorities
will be represented.
It
is
expected
that,
with the establishment
of
formally constituted District Councils, the
towns
and
minor
settlements will come
either
under
the
jurisdiction
of, or be repre-
sented on, those councils.
The
creation of an extra-provincial district for
Dar
es
Salaam
to cover
both
the
urban
ami
peri-urban
areas will ensure the effective co-
ordination
of policy for those areas. No system of cross-membership between
any
urban
local
authority
and
the local
peri-urban
authority
exists at present.
Urban
dwellers
arc
kept in touch
with
affairs in the
more
distant
rural
areas
through
the
medium
of
tribal
associations,
of
which, for example,
there
arc
one
hundred
or
more
in
Dar
es
Salaam.
But it has been noticed
that,
with
gradual
urbanization,
the
influence
and
value
of
these associations is beginning to wane.
(iv)
NORTHERN
RHODESIA
The
towns in
Northern
Rhodesia
include the
European
and
African areas
under
one
authority
and
there
are
no
peri-urban
areas which
are
not
under
asingle authority.
The
smaller
townships in
rural
areas (i.e, D.C:. townships)
are
within
Native
Authority
areas
and
the
Rural
Courts
have
jurisdiction in the townships. Native
Authority
Rules
and
Orders
are
applied
to these townships by certificate
under
the
hand
of
the Local Authority.
The
contact
between Native Authorities
and
Townships of
this class is very close. In the
Municipal
areas there is freedom to come
and
go
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