District Commissioner Makes His Monthly Tour -- The office work cleared up9 the D.C. has a final look around the government rubber plantation in the forest surrounding his station. He examines the rubber that has been turned Into small sheets in the thatched house in the forest clearing where it has been smoked and prepared.Today a District Commissioner's life is one of supervision. His job is to train the African in political responsibility and self government, to see that the chiefs wield their power wisely, roads are kept in repair, African soldiers' wives are paid their allotments and out of the way villages Informed of the progress of the war. The Gold Coast Colony divided into thirteen districts each with a District Commissioner. September 21, 1951. (Photo by British Official Photograph).