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increase the pay of all of the indigenous
African civil servants who worked directly under him. Gowers oversaw the introduction of government subsidies for indigenous farmers, distributing equipment such as fence-making materials, shovels, fertilizer while also guaranteeing the purchase of certain amounts of crops in order to create a thriving agricultural economy. This program was in effect from 1926 to 1931. Gowers was ultimately forced to end the program due to the financial restrictions of the international
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African sovereignty and took care to always be deferential towards the kings of Bunyoro and Uganda. He saw to it that medicine be widely distributed to the indigenous majority so that they would not die from treatable diseases. In particular, the distribution of quinine for
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African civil servants' wages, Gowers undertook the (at the time controversial) step of firing over a dozen of his European staff members in the capital and then using the money thus saved to dramatically
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Colonies (1932–1938), Deputy Chairman of the Cereals Control Board (1939–1940) and Civil Defence Liaison Officer, Southern Command (1940–1942). Gowers died on 7 October 1954, aged 78.
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African Great Lakes colonies, which Sir William Gowers fully supported the idea on the grounds it would massively increase funding for the Uganda colony. However, Governor
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was on this basis (on the basis that it not set aside any land in Uganda for
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