AFRICAN LABOUR
SIR,—My experience in West Africa certainly does not support Mr. Cleland Scott's verdict that " the African has few equals as a spoiler of machinery," since for two years my car was ".serviced " entirely by a works employing an African foreman and fitters. Later, I sold this car to another European with considerable experience of cars and I obtained a highly satisfactory price. If.the East African is not in the same category as the West African, surely the recent Gold Coast disturbances suggest a possible outlet for the skilled and semi-skilled labour which can at present find no suitable employment there. Furthermore, it is tho very rare exception, not the rule, for Europeans in West Africa to work as masons, carpenters, fitters, &c. They leave this work to skilled Africans, who do it without trouble
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