Coastweek Newspaper Vol 2 No 14 (April 6-12,1979)

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Inside this Issue: Record tour year: Kenya’s tourist industry is booming and the estimated figure for gross tourist receipts in 1978 is around £67 million – an increase of £7million over the previous year; Royal visit: Queen Elizabeth-the symbolic head of the Commonwealth may visit Tanzania in July this year on her way to Zambia to attend the 40-nation Commonwealth summit conference in early August; Kibaki does it again: Vice President helped raise a record 580,863 shillings in aid of various projects in Mombasa North constituency at a packed fundraising meeting hosted at Kisauni over the weekend; Hellier heads coast hopefuls; The 27th Safari Rally is now less than a week away, and this is a good opportunity to look at the coast drivers involved. Full story page 18; Errol on flood: Ladies’ Fingers and LeeksLadies’ fingers: (see Okra also)A plant of the marrow family which is also known in the Far East and France as Bamia; Teachers’ art: A teachers Art Exhibition, the first of its kind to be held at Mombasa was officially opened by the Municipal Education Officer, Mr. I.M. Kavu, who said the standard of work was ‘very high; Mombasa movies: ‘Revenge of Shaolin Kid’; Asian films: ‘Kaala Sona’ ; Indusry minister opens coast travel terminal: Fleet of ten Peugeot vehicles plying between Nairobi and Mombasa only; Stopping the slaughter: There are few places in the world where one can spend the morning sailing on the ocean, and the afternoon watching a herd of elephants in their natural surroundings; Snakes leave no footprints: Anthropologist Mary D. Leakey has aroused our imaginations more than ever with the astonishing discovery in northern Tanzania of two sets of footprints 3.6 million years old; Money with garry Bradley: The balance of trade and the balance of payments have a profound effect on our lives and to a large extend determine the Government’s economic policy; U.K. port men tour kilindini: A three-man delegation from the port of Bristol Authority visited the Kenya Ports Authority recently and has discussions with top Kenya Ports Authority officers; Dateline: Nairobi/ Dar es salaam:Tanzania is to export 60 million shillings of leather to Hong Kong and a number of European Countries this year; Usha is back … and so are her fans: Meet Mr. and Mrs. Jani Uthup, a Calcutta tea broker and his wife, who flew into Nairobi the other day from India; Russian census : A state which occupies about one-sixth of the Earth’s land surface has just completed a census among its 260 million people, drawn from almost 120 nationalities; Botha feels betrayed: In South Africa regime feeling increasingly betrayed by the West, is being forced to take another hard look at the county’s future;Japan-industrial giant on the move:Touring snow-capped mount Fuji suddenly loomed beyond us, dark and dimly lit by the ‘rising moon’ as the jet liner approached Tokyo International Airport; Die safari kommt wieder! : Die 27. Safari Rallye steht vor der Tuer, und dies ist eine gute Gelegenheit, speziell auf die lokalen Teilnehmer von der Kueste einen genauen Blick zu werfen; Wapwani muko nyuma katika elimu –kibaki: Kwa Rais ambaye pia ni waziri wa hazina Bwana Mwai Kibaki aliwaambia wananchi wa pwani kinaganaga kwamba “wakati umefika kuambiana ukweli, vile ukweli ulivyo watu wa wilaya sita za pwani mko nyuma katika shughuli za elimu, na ni Taita Taveta pekee ambayo kidogo imefanya taratibu zilizokuwa haijambo”; Surprise cross-county win at kwale: In the coast province secondary school cross-country championship held at Kwale recently, St. Mary’s school Lushangonyi had a surprise win since they only arrived on the spur of the moment thanks to Father Dukes school at Wundanyi giving them a lift; Hughes sponsor squash journey: The cost open squash tournament may be played from April 12to 15 and once again it is being sponsored by Hughes Limited; Coast score badminton victory over Nairobi:Coast province is having great run- in badminton these days; Jaffery set to defend kana title journey:The Kana Cup Cricket Knockout Tournament take a start tomorrow with Jaffery A XI playing against Y.C.C. at Jaffery ground; Eastern tournament: We are coming up to the Easter Tournament which is staged annually at Royal Nairobi Golf Club; British sikh tour coast:Sikh Union Hockey Club of London, which is currently touring Kenya for various friendly matches, may play two matches in Mombasa next week; M.S.C. bleed to blake blad : In the first competitive rugby game for the Erick Shirley Shield, the Mombasa Sports Club XV fell to Kenyatta U. College’s Blak Blad by 31 points.