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THE Secretary of State has sent a mission to visit West Africa to investigate the livestock industry in Nigeria and the Cameroons under British mandate, with particular reference to meat production. The Mission will also engage in discussion where necessary with the authorities of the neighbouring French territories on problems of mutual interest. The leader of the mission will be Sir Frank Ware, formerly animal husbandry commissioner to the Government of India, and the members will be Mr. Thomas Shaw, a director of Messrs. Zwanenberg-Organon, Ltd., and Mr. Gilbert Colville, who has special experience in the breeding-up of African cattle. Arrangements are being made for local officers of the veterinary, agricultural and geological departments to be attached to the mission. The mission will probably pay a further visit to West Africa in February or March to see the country and the cattle at the end of the dry season. During its first visit, the mission is spending a few days in the Gold Coast to discuss problems in connexion with the cattle industry there.
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Nigerian Livestock Mission. Nature 162, 563 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162563a0
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