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ix
Aubject
Pagi.
Serial No.
From or to whom.
Despatch No., c.
Date.
1912.
64
The Governor
Refers to No. 55; considers that it affords proof that the natives generally could not be relied upon to exterminate game, but thinks that the experiment should be allowed to continue as it will placate the Missionary Societies and convince the public generally that measures advocated by persons the imperfectly acquainted with difficulties of the subject are not always practicable.
101
East Africa Protecto- rate, 772.
October 31 (Rec. Nov. 28.)
65
Ditto
Nyasa- land, 313.
1912.
56
Sleeping Sickness
Bureau.
Nyasa- land.
April 2
އ
Subject.
Page,
October 26 (Rec. Nov. 30.)
Reports that more accurate topographical knowledge has proved the description of the Northern Game Reserve in the Game Ordinance of 1909 to be incor- rect; transmits an amended descrip- tion and proposes to issue a procla- mation enbstituting it for the second part of Schedule 5.
Transmits copy of a Proclamation aus- pending the Game Ordinance, 1911, 80 far as natives are concerned, in respect of a certain portion of the Dowa Sub-District of the Lilongwe District; suggests that the question of allowing natives to kill game has not been adequately considered by the Scientific Commission.
Approves of the substitution of the amended description of the Northern Game Reserve enclosed in No. 64 for that contained in the second part of Schedule 5 of the Game Ordinance, 1909.
Transmits copies of the draft Game Ordinance, 1912, as finally revised, together with the comparative table and legal report, and copy of corres- pondence with the Chamber of Com- merce respecting the increase in the weight of ivory.
APPENDIX.
1911.
December 18
Bechuanaland Proclamation No. 42 of 1911 imposing restrictions on the destruction of certain game and its export from the Protectorate.
112
113
114
114
119
57
Foreign Office
...
58
Sir W. H. Manning
to Sir G. Fiddes.
Nyasa- land.
April 2 (Rec. May 13.).
April 11
Transmits copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin, enclosing the revised text of the shoot- ing regulations for German East Africa of Nov. 5, 1908, and Dec. 30, 1911.
102
107
6.6
To the Governor
East
December 6
+
Africa
Protec-
torate,
837.
67
The Acting Governor Uganda,
483.
November 29 (Rec. Dec. 28.)
59
Foreign Office
May 14
60
Sir David Bruce to
Sir John Brad- ford.
Nyasa- land.
April 2 (Rec. May 25.)
61
Colonial Office
May 30
62
To the Governor
Nyasa- land, Telegram.
June 3
63
The Acting Governor
States that Major Pearce has put forward the idea of experimentally tasting the connexion between game and the prevalence of taetse fly by fencing in an area of 100 square miles; states that it is impossible for the Protectorate to finance the scheme and suggests that money might be obtained from private sources; Sir D. Bruce strongly supports the idea..
Transmits a despatch from His Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin enclosing trans- lation of a Note from the German Government giving their views on the raising of the limit of the weight of tusks sold in German East Africa and the Cameroons.
States that he has asked the Governor for the use of a strip of land twenty miles long by ten broad, which he proposes to fence off with a view to a preliminary experiment as to the possibility of exterminating the fly which carries the human trypanosome: aska for his support to the scheme.
Memorandum regarding a proposed experiment for testing the relation between big game and sleeping sickness.
Informs him, in reply in No. 58, that the Secretary of State is prepared to take the matter up with the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire, but asks what area it is proposed to fence and for as reliable an estimate of the cost as is possible.
Nyasa (Rec. June 17.) States, in reply to No. 62, that he
land,
estimates the cost of fencing in an Telegram
ares of 100 square miles at £37,000 88.
with a wire fence, and £25,000 with a wooden fence; experiment should last for five years.
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109
The High Commis-
gioner.
Bouth Africa.
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111
112
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