72 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ( No. 96 Australia ; and with the Seychelles, Mauritius, Cocos, Java , Australia , and New Zealand .

In 1914 a proposal had been made for the erection in British East Africa of a large wireless station capable of exchanging messages with Egypt, South Africa, and India, and with the existingstations on Zanzibar and Pemba. The war has not prevented the execution of this project , and British East Africa has now two wireless stations - one at Nairobi, the second at Mombasa .

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(B ) INDUSTRY (1 ) LABOUR Supply of Labour. - The labour supply presents some difficulty everywhere in East Africa. The primitive native dislikes work in the sense of long periods of full labouring days; in a land of plenty his wants are satis fied by occasional spells of hoeingor by the unexacting pastime of cattle -herding, supplemented by the real exertions of his women folk . In the poll-tax he sees, not his reasonable contribution to the expense of settled government, but a measure of coercion to work , and , if he were given the chance of repudiating the new system of European orderand security, he would likely enough prefer the old conditions of bloodshed, slave raids, and insecurity of life and property. As time goes on , how ever , thenative adapts himself to his new environment, and even the more recalcitrant tribes feel the effect of civilizing influences. The Masai are now beginningto trade, the more enterprising tribes sell and buy freely, and the supply of voluntary labour automatically in creases. By the extension of internal commerce, in which Indian traders take an active part , the natives are gradually familiarized with European products, and are led to work , of their own free will , in order to find means to purchase such luxuries and conveniences. Many tribes of Uganda provide a large volume of labour, more especially for the cotton and grain fields of native chiefs and owners , but also for the coffee and cacao plantations managed by Europeans. The more