Swaziland Digital Archives: Decades: 1930's

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1930's Smart Dude Photographer: Unknown Source: Dawson family	Photo No. 450	Bill Dawson II, who became a stock inspector and married Hester Holtman.
1930's Stock Inspector's House Photographer: Unknown Source: Dawson family	Photo No. 493	the British were keen to get agriculture going in Swaziland on a commercial footing. To avoid tick borne diseases, they shot most of the wild game in the country and had inspectors to check cattle at enforced regular dipping sessions. Any disease was reported to a central authority and action taken. This is the stock inspector's house in Piggs Peak, at the time occupied by Bill and Hester Dawson.
1930's Swimming Party Photographer: Captain Smythe Source: Annie Smythe	Photo No. 42	Captain Smythe obviously enjoyed Swaziland to the full.
1930's White Princess Photographer: Hynd family Source: National Archives	Photo No. 92	White Princess. A Swazi woman bringing grass for the church roof. The whites are members of the Hynd family, pioneer medical missionaries in the Kingdom.
1930's/40's Lady In Waiting Photographer: Unknown Source: Dawson family	Photo No. 435	Unknown children and their Nanny off to a party. Presumably members of the extended Dawson family.
1930's? Balegane Pont Photographer: Unknown Source: Bob Forrester	Photo No. 65	Bridges were expensive and rare - ponts, which were floating barges pulled across by manpower were common.
1930's? Dwarf Warrior Photographer: Unknown Source: Dawson family	Photo No. 415	Hugh McCorkindale with a dwarf warrior. McCorkindale was killed in WWII in 1941 in North Africa. He was the son of one of the pioneer wagon drivers who tried to establish a Scots republic near Amsterdam, on the borders of Swaziland, at the end of the 19th century. He managed to buy about a million acres of land from the Boers to set up Roburnia (after Robert Burns) and Industria but his plans failed during the Boer War.
1930's? Farmers Association Photographer: Mary Kiernan Source: National Archives	Photo No. 110	Front row: (left to right) 1. - 2. - 3. Douglas Miller. Middle row: 1. Capt. P.J. Lewis 2. Herbert Perry 3. V.M. Stewart 4. Allister Miller Sr. 5. Frank Girdwood. Back row: 1. Herbert Carrall? 2. - 3. Noel Jennings 4. T.C. Booth 5. - 6. S.B. Williams 7. Capt. G.B. Wallis The British ran Swaziland's development in agricultural terms. They offered ex-officers land and loans after the two world wars so as to induce good settler stock. Other ranks got permission to run bus services.
1930's? Nanny and I Photographer: Unknown Source: Dawson family	Photo No. 440	Colonial children were usually brought up by their nannies, not by their parents. Close bonds between Nanny and child often developed. This is Bill Dawson III and his Nanny.
1931 Havelock Photographer: Rev. Dawson Source: Dawson family	Photo No. 483	Original writing on back shows: No 1 drive at extreme bottom left of spill heap. No 2 drive is the white excavation in the centre left. Drives 3, 4, 5 and 6 are the white marking son the right.