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No. 235.
SOUTHERN NIGERIA.
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received 3 August, 1908.)
[Copy to Governor, 12 August, 1908. No. 648. L.F.]
Foreign Office, August 1, 1908. [Published as No. 56 in [Cd. 4472], January, 1909.]
No. 236.
BAHAMAS.
GOVERNOR SIR W. GREY WILSON to THE EARL OF CREWE.
(No. 118.) MY LORD,
(Received August 4, 1908.)
Government House, Nassau, July 18, 1908.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's "Miscellane- ous" despatch of June 15th,* reminding me that Lord Elgin's circular despatch of the 26th of February, 1907,† has not been replied to.
2. I regret that no answer was sent to Lord Elgin's circular despatch, and attribute the oversight to the assumption that no answer was required because the Colony is not sufficiently enlightened or progressive to have begun to take any real interest in veterinary matters.
3. There is no certified veterinary surgeon in the Colony and no experienced farrier; in other words, no one capable of compiling a report on the horse diseases of the Colony which would be of any use to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.
4. Occasionally one of the out-islands experiences a severe epidemic, usually after heavy rains, which results in heavy mortality among horses, but in a recent outbreak the report obtained from the best man I could secure, a specious veterinary quack, was of purely negative value.
5. I have for some time been unsuccessfully endeavouring to arouse interest in regard to our marine products, and to induce the Legislature to make provision for securing the services of a marine zoologist, and I must confess that I am without hope that it will be possible to move in the direction of veterinary enlightenment until I am able to persuade those interested in our marine products, from which the greater part of the Colony's wealth is derived, that "as our fathers did so do we is not a complete or wholly satisfactory refutation of the discoveries of modern science.
SIR,
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Enclosure in No. 237.
Railway Headquarters Offices, Johannesburg, 6 July, 1908. WITH reference to His Excellency the High Commissioner's correspondence on the subject of the Convention for the preservation of wild animals, birds, and fish, I have the honour to inform you that the following resolution was recorded by the Inter-Colonial Conference:-
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Minute 4-Adherence by the South African Colonies to the London Convention signed in May, 1900, for the preservation of animals, birds, and fish.
RESOLVED: "That this Conference is of opinion that similar legislation should be introduced during the ensuing Sessions of the Parliaments of the Colonies represented at this Conference to give effect to the representations of the Imperial Government in regard to the Convention for the preservation of wild animals and birds; such legislation, however, not to come into operation until such time as the German and Portuguese authorities shall have intimated to the High Commissioner that they have made similar pro vision in regard to German South-West Africa, the Province of Mozanbique, and the Mozambique Company, respectively."
Third Sitting.
Minute 3-Adherence by the South African Colonies to the London Convention signed in May, 1900, for the preservation of animals, birds, and fish.
RESOLVED: "That the word' Coast' be added before the word 'Colonies in the resolution passed on the previous day with regard to the London Convention for the preservation of animals, birds, and fish."
I have, &c.,
R. H. BRAND,
Secretary to the Inter-Colonial Conference.
The Imperial Secretary, Johannesburg.
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W. GREY WILSON,
Governor.
No. 237.
SOUTH AFRICA.
HIGH COMMISSIONER THE EARL OF SELBORNE to THE EARL OF CREWE. (Received 8 August, 1908.)
(No. 568.) MY LORD,
[Copy to Foreign Office, August 13, 1908. L.F.]
High Commissioner's Office, Johannesburg, July 20th, 1908. WITH reference to my despatch, No. 150, of March 9th, I have the honour to enclose, for your information, a copy of the letter from the Secretary to the Inter- Colonial Conference, on the subject of the Convention for the preservation of wild animals, birds, and fish in South Africa.
I have, &c.,
SELBORNE,
High Commissioner.
No. 238.
UGANDA.
GOVERNOR SIR HESKETH BELL to THE EARL OF CREWE. (Received 22 August, 1908.)
(No. 177.) MY LORD,
Government House, Uganda, 27 July, 1908. THE Earl of Elgin's circular despatch of 26th February, 1907,* appears to have been overlooked here, and I much regret that your Lordship should have had occasion to draw my attention to it.
2. The approved Estimates for the current year provide for the salary of a Veterinary Officer for Uganda at the rate of £400 a year, rising to £500; and I trust that it may be convenient to send that officer out to the Protectorate as soon as possible. The arrangements for the selection of veterinary officers suggested in paragraphs 10 and 11 of Lord Elgin's circular referred to above, appear to me to be all that could be desired.
3. I may mention that the Veterinary Bacteriologist, mentioned in the 15th paragraph of the circular above quoted, has been unable to make the survey of this Protectorate which was apparently projected.
I have, &c.,
H. HESKETH BELL,
Governor.
* L.F.: Reminder.
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