Coastweek Newspaper Vol 3 No 26 (June 27-July 3,1980)

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Inside this issue: Battle of the champions: Three months after the Safari, big names in Kenya’s Motor Sports are back at the coast. Throughout Saturday night, lonely bush tracks may resound with the scream of highly turned engines at some 30 crews battle for fame, trophies, cash prizes and the all-important seeding points, Mombasa housing problems worsen: Mombasa residents are about to face a further worsening of already stretched service because the Municipal Council is still rented with financial problems inherited from the past years. Details of the Council’s plight have emerged in the town Clerk’s 1979 annual report just published, A moment of pride for ted shorrocks and piano pupils: It was a very important moment in 20-year history of Shorrocks Studio of Music Mombasa, when a record number of 34 students took the Royal School of Music examination there recently, Beauty queen gets real bird’s eye-view: There was a big surprise for the District Commissioner, Kwale, Mr. Isaac Lukalo, when a plane load of beauty flew into the Ukunda Airstrip on the south coast where he was waiting with government officers to be taken by Mombasa Air Services on a flight to view the extensive Kwale area he administers and to define tracks used by smugglers, Government wants a strong and health civil service-ondicho: Mombasa (K.N.A.)- the government attaches great importance to establishment of a strong heathy civil service with a capability of pursuing national development goals effectively. This has been said by the Union of Kenya Civil Servants Coast Provincial Director Mr. Zablon Ondicho at a dinner hosted in honor of fifty civil servants from west Germany currently on a study tour in Kenya, German navy visit kenya: Making their debut in Kenya was the German Federal Navy with the arrival of four of her Warships at Mombasa on a very successful and enjoyable four-day friendly visit, Salim returns to hero’s welcome in Mombasa: It’s Hockey Player of the year has returned to Mombasa. He is non other than the national goalkeeper Said Mbarak Salim who hails from the coast and plays for Mombasa Baobab Hockey Club. He is also the secretary of the Coast Hockey