Trans Nzoia Scrap Book - Visit of HRH The Prince of Wales - ….we waltzed and quick-stepped to such popular tunes of the time as "Ramona" and "A Room with a View", played with infectious enthusiasm and skill by the Kitale Four - Elsie Sale who later became Mrs Beric Brooksbank, Frank Narraway, Gerald Smallwood and Tub Roberts. This band was invited by Muthaiga Country Club to play at the Ball given in honour of HRH The Prince of Wales.

Lander - Jane is an American, dark and sparkling, one of those peculiarly blessed women who seem to do everything well, have a happy knack of making friends, and, to crown all this, are most attractive and full of fun. Nothing can ever ruffle Jane's good humour; as a cook she is supreme; she runs rabbits and chickens, has a beautiful garden in which she spends a lot of time herself, is an excellent dressmaker, and always manages to look as if she has just stepped out of a bandbox. As well as all this she has had some training in architecture, and when I was staying with her she was busy making plans for the new house she and Gerald were going to build. Gerald is what I would call an elegant Englishman. Tall courteous, and polished, but his air of charm does not prevent him from being a sound, hard-working farmer, and his capable-looking hands tell you this.

The Smallwood house at that time was a funny little place, all on different levels, and they were going to pull it down when the new one was built. Their delightful hospitality more than compensated for any shortcomings in the building, and I was amused to see how they solved their water difficulties. A battered drum on an old car chassis, pulled by two humped oxen and driven by the oldest and shabbiest African you ever saw, plied backward and forward from a spring. This outfit was known as "Boadicea" or "The Chariot" and provided baths and other plumbing facilities quite efficiently.

KFA - Member, in 1930, of L.A. Johnson's syndicate who discovered gold at Kakamega.

Hut has 1940 CO E Africa

Gazette  6 Dec 1938 Uasin Gishu Voters Roll expunged