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unions, coâ€"operatives, labour unions. profesâ€" sional associations, and retail merchants as- sociations, etc., may apply to the Commission for approval to act as “collector” of premiums for their members. Such Collector’s Groups which are listed prior to August 31, 1958, and. approved, will make payment of one month's premium for each enrolled member in December 1958_ This Wm pay for the month of March 1959. Janu- ary and February will be covered without payment of premiums and all subsequent preâ€" mium payments will be made on a monthly basis from January 1959 on. Payâ€"Direct Enrolment â€" Residents Such as farmers and others not employed in a group who register and pay one month‘s premium prior to September 30, 1958, will have pro~ tection effective January 1, 1959. This initial payment for one month will cover the month of_ March 1959. January and February 1959 Wilt be covered without payment of premiums as in the case of those enrolling through groups. Pay-Direct participants enrolled as outlined above. will be billed in January for two. three or four months premiums to continue benefits from April lst. The reason for this is to “stage ger" the due dates for premiums in the inter- est of a balanced work-load in the Commission office. Subsequent premiums for those partici- pants will be on a regular quarterly basis. 7 Waiting PeriodfiThose who do not enrol in tune to have protection ctl‘cctive January t. 1959. must serve a waiting pcriod of thch months. This applies to both "group" and "Pay»Direct" cnrolmcnt, A Strong Start in. Zanzibar By Beryl Hearnden, Publicity Chairman. {LCJT‘JT} HAT do you know about Zanzibar? If you had asked me that question three years ago I’d have said vaguely that it was an island off the east coast of Africa, ruled by a Sultan. and the ancient seafarers called it the Isle of Cloves because they grow so many that the air is scented with them. If I looked it up I could have told you that the island covers 640 square miles and has a population of 137,731. (And between ourselves I’ll have forgotten that again by next week.) Having done my stutf by statistics I shall now tell you something really important about Zanzibar. It has a countrywomen’s organiza- tion with corresponding membership in A.C.W.W. and they sent a representative to the Conference in Colombo. The Zanzibar Women’s Association started three years ago, with 30 members. In Scpâ€" tember 1955 we got a letter from their Chair- man, asking if they could join A.C.W.W. She told us they were a multi-racial group, Afri- cans, Arabs, Europeans, Indians. Goans and Parsees, ranging from the wife of the Chief Justice to two old African ladies from the almshouse who couldn’t read and could only speak Kiswahili, but she added "everyone loves our meetings and seems to get something out of the feeling of kinship.” That’s a state of mind we can all recognize â€"people being happy together, When I read that I'd have taken a bet that the Zanzibar society would grow and prosper. Today they have 200 members of 13 nationâ€" alities, drawn from all the different communiâ€" ties in Zanzibar. They meet once a month to have lectures. cookery demonstrations. social or musical afternoons, and to discuss their various social services. These cover quite a field. They visit old people; they sew for and visit the Maternity Home: they run stalls at Charity fetes. and SUMMER l958 they gave :1 Now Your party for u hundrcd poor children. Thcy have :1 housing punvl to advise on the building,r of now houscs, from the \‘t'OIl‘lDtl's point of vicn'. 'l‘ht-y collct'l clothes [or childrcn \rlm nccd tin-m tn go to school and haven't the money to hin thcm. Some of tho mcmlwrs Work in utth-ws, sunn- ure school teachers lll' nurses. sumo tll'l' 1n Purdah, but (‘\'L‘l‘_\' one of tlwm din-s u'luit slu- can to help malu- u succcss ot' the society's undct‘tuklnus. Up till now they linx'i- hurl nu lu-ndqttni'lt't‘s of their own, but now tlu-y tun-c :1 l'lltllll'l‘ to take over and reconstruct Hlll‘ of tilt“ ’l‘u\ro1':: (it the Old Aral) Fort on “11' scu t'rnnl. 'l‘n achicvc this. [boy have in 1‘“le .L' Till) by .lunc 30th and thcy nrc scttinp about. It Wllll n host of schemes. lndlvtdunl collecting huxcs, n Iii-st Class ronccrt. sulc of humcâ€"mndi- su'm'ls. :i market stall for sccond-hnnrl l'lutllcs. all tlur things we ntl do to rutsc mnncy. It sci-ms In inc that. thcy are oiling: to how to Work hard to put that tnnunnt in :1 smnll community liki- Zanzibar, but dm-sn't it ring it lit-ll“! [\Il HVl'l' the world, north, south. cost and wont. worm-n urc doing the some thing and for tho sonic reason, Themt- with variations. 3 musician would say, and what in practical, plucky, Invo- Iy thcmo it. is, and the variations just odd In its colour and bounty. In tho lcttcr that ilCt‘lJlllptllllL‘fl tho l'l'ptll‘t their Chairman says: "Wt' have lwt-n vcry much encouraged by reading in tho ‘Country- woman' of what others have (tom-ewe hope we shall be equally sucrcssfui. I wonder if we are the only Association rilliliiltcd tn A,C,W.W. whose heudqunrtcrs will be a tnwcr of a Fort? What a swing of the pcndulum from the building's Uriflinul wurâ€"liko purpose to our present, existence of women of all ram-5 working harmoniously together for the good of all. A very thrilling thought." 27