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Development Plans for Basutoland

FROM the Chief Commissioner of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria, Sir John R. Patterson, we have received a brochure containing an account of the foundation-stone laying of the Council Chamber at Kaduna on 27 June 1947.The building, which will be the scene of the labours of the Northern Regional Council under the new constitution, is to be known as the Lugard Memorial Council Chamber.It stands on the site which Lord Lugard selected for the erection of Government House had Kaduna become, as at one time he proposed, the capital of Nigeria.The ceremony fitly symbolized the co-operation of two par…