Dear Eddie
As you have proved yourself (in my eyes) to be the super detective on the super
highway, perhaps you can use your detective powers to work this out for me.
One of the photographs of The Book “A Railway Runs Through” by kind courtesy of
Mervyn Maciel has this caption:
Quote:
District Commissioner Wyndham Wild, Marsabit, 1950………
Unquote:
1. 1. Kenya Gazette 28 March 1950 – Government Notice 333 under
Appointments - looks like Gerard Montfort Bess was appointed District
Commissioner, Marsabit, District Northern Province, with effect from 18 March
1950.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5bJVGhFuKYkC&pg=PA256&dq=Kenya+Gazette+1950&hl=en&sa=X&ei=E6uIU53xHYeQyASJooC4Cw&;
2. 2. Kenya Gazette – 17 October 1950 - Government Notice 1131 –
Wyndham Albert Wild looks like he was District Officer, Mackinnon Road, Terta
District, Coast Province
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CTnVPp87xawC&pg=PA907&lpg=PA907&dq=district+commissioner+wyndham+wild&source=bl&ots=GmhdrZGUoY&sig=sJAkXvSesxg6yda0NGOkslPqoNY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=l6GIU67BB4OR7AaeooHwAg&ved=0CEUQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=district%20commissioner%20wyndham%20wild&f=false
3. 3. Kenya Gazette of 6 September 1955 under Appointments looks like
Wyndham Albert Wild DFC was appointed District Commissioner, Marsabit District,
Northern Province with effect from 1 August 1955
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Fo2pIoOEY4AC&pg=PP2&lpg=PP2&dq=district+commissioner+wyndham+wild&source=bl&ots=Z7-AhDIoDQ&sig=fU1cwB_blv0uG8DuSvdczfp3nbE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vIeIU_naKsKYO4rtgOAK&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=district%20commissioner%20wyndham%20wild&f=false
As you can imagine, I have now entered another State of Goan confusion and seek
your valued assistance, could you advise me (if you know) just who was or who
were (if there was more than one) District Commissioners of Marsabit in the
year 1950?
No point in me asking Melvyn, he comes out with his one liner, "Goans don't
tell the right story", besides he will definitely not know, this was before the
time he was born and it also happens to be before the time I was born.
Perhaps our learned people will find the formula and explain why we have this
State of Goan confusion even today?
Rose Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
30 May 2014
