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(No. 109.) MY LORD,
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No. 110.
ZANZIBAR.
THE RESIDENT to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 2nd August, 1920.)
The Residency, Zanzibar, 28th June, 1920.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's despatch, High Commission, Miscellaneous, of the 14th May, 1920,* on the question of extended investigations in Africa with a view to the introduction of practical measures for the control of the tsetse fly, and in reply to state that inasmuch as Glossing have never been found in this Protectorate it does not appear that this Government would be justified in contributing to the support of the scheme of investigation proposed.
I have, &c.,
F. B. PEARCE,
Resident.
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3. It is not proposed to communicate with the Imperial Treasury as to increas-
ing the grant of His Majesty's Government from £500 to £1,000 pending replies to the despatches and letters referred to above.
4. You will be advised in due course as to the replies received.
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G. GRINDLE.
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31585
No. 111.
COLONIAL OFFICE to IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.
Downing Street, 5th August, 1920.
SIR,
I AM directed by Viscount Milner to transmit to you thirty copies of the Report of the Imperial Entomological Conference,† together with copies of despatches and letters to the Self-governing Dominions and Australian States, the Colonies not possessing responsible Government and British Protectorates, the India Office and Foreign Office, the British South Africa Company and the British North Borneo Company.
2. It will be observed that the contributions asked for from 1921 (1921-22) onwards are as follows:-
Dominion of Canada
Commonwealth of Australia
Dominion of New Zealand
£
1,000
400
400
India
1,000
Union of South Africa
700
Newfoundland
50
Six Australian States
600
Nigeria
1,000
Gold Coast
700
Sierra Leone
200
Gambia
100
East Africa Protectorate (now Kenya Colony)
300
Uganda Protectorate
300
500
250
300
500
200
750
300
100
250
50
150
150
100
50
50
Windward Islands
60
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Tanganyika Territory Ceylon
Straits Settlements Federated Malay States
Hong Kong
British North Borneo
Mauritius
Seychelles
British Guiana
Trinidad
Jamaica
Barbados
Leeward Islands
(No. 240.) MY LORD,
No. 112. NYASALAND.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 24th August, 1920.)
Government House, Zomba, Nyasaland, 19th July, 1920. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's despatch Miscellaneous of the 14th May,* on the subject of further investigation into the tsetse fly.
2. This Government is fully in accord with the views expressed as to the necessity for further investigation as proposed, and I may more particularly refer to my despatch No. 28, of the 28th January last.†
3. I understand from Your Lordship's despatch that the estimated annual expenditure on the work to be undertaken in six experimental areas is put at £50,000, and that it should extend for a period of five years. I am afraid that the finances of this Protectorate could not bear more than a small fraction of this large sum, but it is to be remembered that for some years it bore the heavy cost of Sir David Bruce's Commission, and subsequently the cost of Mr. Fiske's fly investigation in British East Africa and Uganda, and that of Dr. Lamborn in Nyasaland.
4. With regard to personnel, while we have here, still, Dr. Sanderson, who was engaged for some time on sleeping sickness investigations and the examination of fly areas, I do not know that he has any special training that would qualify him for bionomical research of the character now in contemplation. Apart from this, however, is the present condition of the Medical Department. The shortage of staff, with, I understand, much difficulty in finding suitable candidates to bring it up to full strength, renders it impossible to spare any of the local Medical Officers for the investigations proposed.
5. I would, however, refer to my despatch above quoted of 26th January last, and urge again that Dr. Lamborn's services should be secured to continue in Nyasaland the very promising researches he had already undertaken when he was removed in 1916 to British East Africa. I have it from him that he will be very willing to return to Nyasaland for this work, to which he has devoted much study in the past. He should be placed in charge of the investigations here with such subordinate staff as the means available will permit, and with a status and rate of remuneration commensurate with his long training and marked capacity as an investigator into medico biological problems.
6. As Your Lordship is aware, provision is made in the Protectorate Estimates for an entomologist under head 20, item 28, but, while his observations of the tsetse fly may be useful, his time and energies must be applied in the main to the chief purpose of his office, the investigation and treatment of agricultural pests.
I have, &c.,
G. SMITH.
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