Coastweek Newspaper Vol 2 No 19 (May 11-17,1979)

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Inside this Issue: Fares price hike: By agreement with the Mombasa Municipal Commission, bus fares in Mombasa may be increased effectively from Monday 14th May 1979. Hoteliers praise paris tour mans initiative: Mombasa -born Joe Khamis, Kenya Tourist Officer, Paris was congratulated by Kim Morbey, chairman of the Kenya Association of Hotel keepers’ and caterers’ at the coast for his enterprise in organizing such a ‘worthwhile exercise’. Soviet call: The hammer and sickle was more in evidence in Kilindini this week than probably the port has ever since in its own history. Tanzania slates those ‘exploitive shipping systems; Tanzania Freight Bill for her seaborne foreign trade in 1977 amounted to 1,534,318,355/= a foreign exchange “because of the existing exploitative shipping arrangements”. Kilindini cargo rises on dull march figure: The total dry tonnage of dry general cargo handled at the port of Mombasa during the month of April 1979 was 184,001 deadweight tons. Sultan simba: Wer hat die erste Serie von Brief marken in Ostafrika herausgegeben? Wer hat einen, viele Kilometer langen kanal gebraben, um einen der groessten Fluesse Kenia’s umzuleiten? Undeni vyama vya shirika pwani: Mbunge wa Bungoma Mashariki Bwana Elijah Mwangale amewashauri wananchi wa pwani kuvinjari na kuwa na moyo wa kushirikiana kwa kufanya vyama vya shirika ili kurahihisha hatua ya kuyanunua mashamba ya wageni pwani.