Mervyn & Elsie Maciel wrote: > I could also visualise my former boss(Sir Richard Turnbull) delivering > that speech and praising Goans in his customary manner,fortified > (as I'm sure he must have been) with a ood tot of his famous Scotch?! > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I have a feeling that Goans in > Tanganyika(Tanzania) got on far better than those of us in Kenya?
Mervyn(Maciel), 1) There are lots of people here who witnessed Turnbull's speach at the G.I. I will leave it to those who did, to comment on what they remember. While I probably heard his speech, I was all of one year old and cannot remember a thing. 2) I am not to sure what the divisions in Kenya were. By the time I started making sports trips to Kenya, 20 years after independence, I did not notice any among the Goan sportsmen/women of my age group. 3) The Goans in Tz had only one division, as far as I know. After independence the Institutes allowed all professions to become members. 4) In my personal observations, the coastal Goans i.e. Mombasa, Tanga, Dar and Zanzibar always seemed much warmer than those who lived in the interior, who were usually richer and less fun. Mervyn(Lobo)
