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Date.
Preservation of Elephants. Expresses opinion, in reply to No. 203, 150
that it is not necessary to impose any further restriction on the sale of elephant tusks if under a certain weight.
223 To the Society for
the Preservation
of the Wild Fauna
of the Empire.
1908.
Gambia
May 9
215 Governor
Bell.
Hesketh Uganda, | January 21
18. (Rec. Feb. 17.)
Preservation of Game. States that buffaloes have been removed from the list of protected animals owing to the hardship inflicted by them on the natives.
224⚫
The Society for the
May 14
150
Preservation the Wild Fauna of the Empire.
of
216
Governor Sir Strickland.
2.
G. Tasmania, January 13
(Rec. Feb. 22.)
Improvement of Veterinary Matters. Transmite a communication from the Premier stating that the organisation of the Agricultural Department of Tasmania does not admit of the application of the suggestions iu No. 93.
Preservation of Game. Approves of the action reported in No.
225
To the Society for
June 3
150
the Preservation
of the Wild Fauna
of the Empire.
Subject.
Page.
Preservation of Elephants. Calls attention to No. 219; presumes that the Society has no observations to offer, and proposes to express con- currence in the opinion conveyed in No. 214.
153
154
Urges that no tusks under 25 lbs. weight 154
should be allowed shipment from any British port in Africa, and that the Ordinance permitting under- weight ivory to travel down the Uganda railway should be repealed.
Regreta that no alteration of the present law as to the export of ivory from the Gambia can be made in the direc- tion desired by the Society; the Governor of Uganda will be asked whether the minimum weight of ele- phants' tusks could not be raised to 25 lbs. Lord Crewe is not aware of any law under which undersized ivory travels down the Uganda rail- way.
Transmits copy of a despatch from Sir F. Lascelles, at Berlin, on the subject of a minimum trading weight for elephant tusks, reporting that a copy of his note of 13th March has been sent to the Governor at Buair with instructions to consider the question of fixing a uniform minimum weight of elephant tusks.
Game Shot under Licence during 1907.
Forwards return
154
154
217'
To Governor
Hesketh Bell.
Uganda, February 27
53.
215.
151
226*
Foreign Office
June 11
Trade in Elephant Tusks in the Cameroons.
218 Foreign Office
March 11
Forwards copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin en- closing translation of a decree for- bidding the
from export
the Cameroons of elephant tusks under five kilograms, and of the reply in- structing him to request the German Government to prohibit once more the export of tusks under two kilo- grains.
151
227*
Governor Bell.
Hesketh
Uganda, 122.
May 22 (Rec. June 20.)
219°
To the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna
Gambia
March 11
Preservation of Elephants. Transmits, for observations, copy of No. 151
214.
of the Empire.
220*
Commissioner Cor-
deaux.
Somali- land, 29.
February 29 (Rec. Mar. 21.)
Game killed in the Protectorate under licence during 1907.
Transmits return...
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221
High Commissioner
the Earl of Sel- borne.
South Africa, 150.
March 9
(Rec. Mar. 28.)
2
*
222
Governor Sir G. C. Gambia,
Denton.
36.
March 9 (Rec. Apr. 13.)
151
***
228*
Governor
Egerton.
Nigeria, ¡Telegram.
Preservation of Elephants.
Sir W. Southern (Rec. July 15.)| Contradicts the assumption in the corre- spondeuce enclosed in No. 226 that Southern Nigeria is unwilling to raise the limit of weight of ivory, and refers to No. 164 points out that increased weight was effected from 30th March by Ordinance No. 3 of 1908, Chapter 131.
229
Ditto
ཧྲྰི་
151
Southern June 26
Nigeria, (Rec. July 20.)
396.
153
230*
Foreign Office
July 21
Veterinary Survey.
154
Forwards report of Mr. Garden on his | 155
Veterinary Survey of the Colony and Protectorate; and requests that Mr. Garden's services may be re- ; enlisted for a further tour of ser- vice.
Sale and Export of Ivory in the French Congo.
Forwards copies of despatches from the 172
Consuls at Boma and Libreville regarding the suspension of an Arrêté forbidding the sale and export from the French Congo of tusks weighing 2 kilos, and under.
London Convention for the Preservation of Wild Animals, Birds, and Fish in Africa.
Transmits copies of the replies of the Governments of Southern Rhodesia and the Orange River Colony on the question of adherence,
Cattle Diseases in the Gambia, Acknowledges receipt of No. 195, and
considers that "Redwater"
and "Quarterill" might be added to the list of specific diseases: points out that there is already sufficient power to deal with failure to report deaths of cattle, &c., from epidemic outbreaks.
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