In any case, things like the structure of the TTGA, the issues confrontingmembers in those days and the union negotiations in which we were involved areunlikely to be of general interest. As a result,I have had to rely on an uncertain memory in recalling that period of my life,and I fear there are gaps and may well be inaccuracies in my account. These documents would have enabled me to write a more accurateaccount of the tea industry at that time, but are no longer accessible. I also gave the defunct British Empire and Commonwealth Museum theannual reports of the Tanganyika Tea Growers Association for the period of myemployment. The BMGAreference is shown below the caption for each of the photographs thus madeavailable to me.
Although that museum has closed its doors, its collectionshave been transferred to the Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives, and Iam immensely grateful to the BMGA team for unearthing several of thesephotographs and letting me use them to illustrate this memoir. I donated themsome years ago to the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum at TempleMead in Bristol. I should also explain that, during my time working at Government House, Iacquired copies of photographs taken by the Tanganyika Information Servicesand printed in the daily paper, the Tanganyika Standard. I hope that my family and friends will be amused by the personal storyof my leisure and social life, while other readers who do not know me and areindifferent to my personal affairs, will find some interest in the description ofmy work and the political developments of the time. First, I have to apologise that, as before, Iam addressing two distinct groups of readers. Ihave done my best to check the facts, but attempted neither to write a historynor even offer a complete account of what went on around me then.Some explanations are in order. As far as possible, I have tried toavoid relying on an uncertain memory or using hindsight in viewing the past. Once again, I have simply recorded my life and times as revealed in thediaries, letters and reports I wrote on the spot. This volume records my return there when I did a varietyof jobs in the Colonial Service and then spent two years with the TanganyikaTea Growers Association. The second volume related the somewhatbumpy start of my career as a District Officer in the old ColonialService in Tanganyika. The first part of my Memoirs (available here) told the story of my childhood,education and army life. The Winds and Wounds of Change: 1961 to 1965 Part 3: The Memoirs of Dick Eberlie
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