[1] Soon after taking office, Gowers proposed a remedy to the practice of payment of envujo on cash crops, which colonial officials had denounced as "repugnant to justice and morality".

[4] On the question of the Toro Kingdom, which the British had restored after driving out the Banyoro, Gowers felt that the agreement made at the time was simply a declaration of principle by the protecting power.

As governor of Uganda, Gowers pointed out the local importance of Swahili, a Bantu language also spoken in Kenya and Tanganyika and the eastern Congo.

[7] When Gowers could not convince the colonial office to increase the money spent in Uganda for 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 increase the pay of all of the indigenous African civil servants who worked directly under him.

[8] 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.

[10] Gowers was appointed Senior Crown Agent for the Colonies (1932–1938), Deputy Chairman of the Cereals Control Board (1939–1940) and Civil Defence Liaison Officer, Southern Command (1940–1942).