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6. Section 35 (1) of the Principal Ordinance is repealed and is replaced as follows:-
Any person who hunts, kills or captures any animal in contravention of this Ordinance or otherwise commits any offence against this Ordinance for and in respect of which no penalty is specially provided or commits a breach of this Ordinance or of the conditions of his licence shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding £50 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two months or to both fine and imprison-
ment.
7. Section 24 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by the addition of the following sub-section :-
(7). Where the holder of a Protectorate licence or of a Visitor's licence is unable to make any use of his licence during the year for which it is issued he may on application to the Governor have his licence endorsed to that effect, and thereupon such licence shall remain in force until the 31st day of March next following the date of such endorsement. Such application may be made at any time within four years from the expiration of the year for which the licence was originally granted. If no use is made of the licence during the period for which the licence has been renewed the licensee may from time to time have the licence further endorsed so as further to extend the period for which it is available. Provided always that no such renewal shall be granted after five years from the original date of issue of the unused
F. B. PEARCE,
Acting Governor.
licence.
Zomba, Nyasaland,
12th February, 1913.
In accordance with Regulation 182 of the Regulations for His Majesty's Colonial Service, I hereby state that in my opinion the assent of His Excellency the Acting Governor may properly be given to an Ordinance intituled
"The Game Amendment Ordinance, 1913."
Zomba, Nyasaland,
12th February, 1913.
JOSEPH SHERIDAN,
Acting Attorney-General.
Enclosure 2 in No. 18.
MEMORANDUM ON THE GAME AMENDMENT Ordinance, 1913.
This Bill was considered and passed at an Extraordinary Session of the Legis- lative Council held on the 12th February, 1913.
The Bill, with the exception of one clause, had already received the approval of the Secretary of State (ride despatch of the 18th September, 1912, No. 255).
The exception referred to is contained in Clause 3 of the Bill. It was the unanimous opinion of the Council that the privilege of allowing residents in North Eastern Rhodesia and officers of His Majesty's ships on the East African Station to shoot on a Protectorate licence might be withdrawn for the following reasons:- (1) In the case of residents in North-Eastern Rhodesia, since the passing of the principal Ordinance North-Eastern Rhodesia has become merged in Northern Rhodesia, and it was felt that the privilege could not very well be granted to residents in one portion of the territory and withheld in the case of residents in another portion of the territory.
Secondly, residents in Northern Rhodesia do not as a rule pass through Nyasa-' land on their way to England nowadays, whereas at the time of the passing of the principal Ordinance it was the invariable route taken by persons coming from Fort Jameson. It was considered at the time that such persons might be allowed to get cheap shooting in order to provide their men with meat on the journey. privilege had its origin in a suggestion made by one of the Unofficial Members.
Thirdly, as far as I am aware no reciprocal advantages are offered by the Rhodesian Government to persons resident in Nyasaland.
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(2) In the case of officers of His Majesty's ships on the East African Station, in view of the Cape Station having been substituted for the East African Station it was felt that, if the privilege were continued in favour of naval officers, army officers stationed in South Africa would have a good claim to be allowed a similar privilege, and thus a loss of revenue would be entailed, as hitherto such army officers have been obliged to take out a Visitor's licence.
JOSEPH SHERIDAN, Zomba, Nyasaland,
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12th February, 1913.
No. 19.
Acting Attorney-General.
THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 10 April, 1913.)
SIR,
2, London Wall Buildings, London, E.C.,
8th April, 1913. I AM directed to refer to your letter, No. 7869/1913, of the 27th ultimo,* enquiring whether my Directors propose to conduct in Rhodesia an experiment of game destruction on a large scale, within enclosed areas infected with tsetse fly, with the object of ascertaining the value of game destruction as a means of elimi- nating the species of fly which have been proved to be the carriers of trypanosome diseases.
2. The theory that the occurrence of tsetse fly is incidental to the presence of big game has often been put forward during the progress of the investigations which the Company has instituted with the object of checking the spread of trypano- somiasis, but, up to the present, its truth has not been sufficiently demonstrated to justify the Board in authorising any extensive destruction of the wild fauna of Rhodesia.
3. The Board has left to the discretion of the Administrator of Northern Rhodesia the question of the advisability of destroying game existing in the vicinity of certain European settlements in that territory, and also within a fly-belt near two native villages, and in the immediate proximity to the main traffic routes.
4. No information has yet been received regarding the extent to which the Administrator has availed himself of these discretionary powers, but an enquiry will be made and its result communicated to your Department in due course.
5. With these exceptions, no steps have been taken by my Directors of the nature indicated, and the result of the tentative experiments in that direction will be awaited before similar action is taken on a larger scale.
6. All the reports from time to time received by this Company relating to sleeping sickness have been attached to the agenda laid before the Board at its weekly meetings, and copies of them should, therefore, be in the hands of the Colonial Office. As regards the relationship between big game and the spread of the disease, I am to invite your attention to Mr. Wallace's letter of the 11th July, 1912.† The suggestions contained in this letter, so far as the particular matter now under discussion is concerned, are summarized in paragraphs 3 and 4 above. I am also to transmit copies of a letter from the Secretary to the Administrator of Southern Rhodesia of the 18th January, 1913,† enclosing a report on the Sebungwe fly area, and of a reply from this Company dated the 15th March.†
7. In case the Secretary of State should not already have had it brought to his notice, it may be of interest to him to see the accompanying copy of a papert recently read to the Royal Zoological Society by Dr. Warrington Yorke on the results of the investigations recently made by himself and Dr. Kinghorn in North-Eastern Rhodesia.
8. It will he noticed that Dr. Yorke recommends the destruction of big game in sleeping sickness areas, not so much with a view to "eliminating the flies," as is suggested in your letter under reply. as with a view to destroying what Dr. Yorke describes as "the natural reservoir of the infection," which makes the flies dangerous to human life.
I am, &c.,
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D. E. BRODIE,
Secretary.
Annexure 5 in No. 23.
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