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No. 63. NYASALAND.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 10.30 a.m. 17th June, 1912.)
TELEGRAM.
No. 38. Your telegram 3rd June.* I am not aware how Bruce arrived at his estimate but am communicating with him in meantime. Cost of 30 miles of 8-feet wire fencing when erected estimated at £15,000. Buildings, £550. Annual recur- ring expenditure assumed as follows: One director £1,000, two assistants at £500 each, and native staff and labour £360. Other charges, passages, local travelling, upkeep of fence, and incidentals £2,000, gives total for annual recurrent about £4,400. This in five years will amount to £22,000. Total estimated cost of experi- ment on above scale will amount to £37,000. Above is for 100 square miles area. Cheaper wooden fence could be erected for about £2,000, but would require constant renewal and liable to be burnt. If cheaper fence is built, total cost for five years' experiment estimated at about £25,000.
Despatch follows giving full details when reply from Bruce on certain points has been received: Governor is at present away. PEARCE.
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thence to the summit of Lolajonga Hill (survey point, 3,512 feet) approximately 15 miles south-west of Marsabit Lake, thence in a straight Northern Boundary.
line westerly to the summit of Mount Nyiro (N.B. this line crosses the Orr Valley east of Mount Nyiro, at what is known as the "second stream"), thence in a straight line to the summit of Kowop Western Boundary.
Hill, thence in a straight line to the western scarp of Loroki Hill (survey point, 8,090 feet), thence in a straight line to the summit of Pakka Hill (survey beacon, 5,575 feet), thence in a straight line to the Southern Boundary.
summit of Ol Doinyo Oiroua or Kuti (survey beacon, 6,905 feet), thence in a straight line to the junction of the Northern East Uaso Nyiro and East Uaso Narok Rivers, thence down the left (north) bank of the former to the ford at Kampi ya Nyama Yangu, the point of commencement.
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No. 64.
EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 28 November, 1912.)
[Answered by No. 66.]
Government House, Nairobi, British East Africa,
October 31st, 1912.
THE more accurate topographical knowledge acquired since the enactment of the 'Game Ordinance, 1909 (No. XIX. of 1909), has proved the description of the Northern Game Reserve contained in Schedule 5 of the Ordinance to be in many respects incorrect, and a more satisfactory definition is required.
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2. I transmit herewith for your approval an amended description drawn up accordance with the information now available, and I propose, on receipt of your reply, to issue a proclamation substituting the enclosed schedule for the second part of Schedule 5.
I have, &c.,
C. C. BOWRING
(In the absence of the Governor).
Enclosure in No. 64.
DESCRIPTION OF THE NORTHERN GAME RESERVE.
Starting at the ford at "Kampi ya Nyama Yangu," on the Eastern Boundary.
Northern East Uaso Nyiro River, the boundary runs in a straight line to the summit of Koitogor (Noigoitoga) Hill (survey beacon, 4,067 feet), thence to the summit of Kalama Hill, thence to the summit of Lololokwi Hill, thence northward along the foot of the eastern slopes of Uaraguess Hill and the Mathews Range to the northernmost end of the latter (approximately on latitude 1° 30' N.), thence in a straight line in a north-easterly direction to the summit of Lomoton Hill, thence to the summit of Lodermut Hill (survey point, 4,712 feet),
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SIR,
No. 65.
NYASALAND.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 30 November, 1912.)
[Copy w Tropical Diseases Bureau, 6 December, 1912. L.F.] [Acknowledged 6 December, 1912. No. 321.]
(No. 313.)
Government House, Zomba, Nyasaland Protectorate,
26th October, 1912.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 248, of the 6th of September, 1912,* on the subject of the grant of a general permission to natives to kill game.
2. In accordance with the instructions given in paragraph 3 of your despatch, a Proclamation under Section 38 of the Game Ordinance, 1911, will be published in the October Gazette suspending the operation of the Ordinance, so far as natives are concerned, in respect of that portion of the Dowa Sub-District of the Lilongwe District, which was proclaimed by notice No. 213, of the 30th of December, 1911, as being infected with sleeping sickness. I transmit, for your information, an advance copy of the Proclamation. You will observe that I have excepted elephants (female or young) and also the birds specified in Schedule 1 to the Ordinance, as birds are known to eat both pupae and tsetse fly, and their presence is therefore beneficial.
Nyasa. Telegram No. 55 of 9th December,
1911.
Colonial Office. Telegram No. 61 of 13th December, 1911.
Nyasa. No. 58 of 22nd December, 1911.
3. With reference to paragraph 2 of your despatch, you will observe, on refer- ence to the marginally-noted correspon- dence, that in December last Major Hamerton, who was in temporary charge of the Scientific Commission pending the arrival of Sir David Bruce, recommended that the infected area should be proclaimed as a temporary game reserve for purposes of research, and I therefore cancelled the permission given a few weeks previously for the free killing by natives of game in the proclaimed area, and withdrew some weapons issued to assist this object. I presume that Sir David Bruce in recommend- ing the killing of game by natives in this area has now obtained sufficient blood slides, and I trust that the permission now granted to natives to kill game will not embarrass the work of the Commission in any way. There would appear to be some vagueness of purpose in these conflicting decisions, which inclines me to believe that the matter has not been adequately considered.
I have, &c.,
W. H. MANNING.
Governor.
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