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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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CO. 885
22 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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1913.
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The Royal Society
April 15
22
The Governor
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Gambia, 52.
March 19 (Rec. April 16.)
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The British South
Africa Company.
April 17
April 4 (Rec. April 21.)
Transmits a letter from Staff-Surgeon Tante, of the German Army Medical Service, expressing the opinion that the experiment proposed in Nyan- land should be extended to the whole of Africa, and concurring in the opinion of Sir D. Bruce that such an experiment on a large scale is neces- sary for the solution of the question of the connexion between game and sleeping sickness.
Explains the reason for the withdrawal of part of the protection given to hippopotami in the Gambia. Forwards, inter alia, a report on the Sebungwe fly area by Dr. F. 0. Stohr and a paper by Dr. Warrington Yorke on the relationship of the big game of Africa to the spread of sleep- ing sickness.
States, in reply to No. 12, that when the proposed forest reserves have been surveyed and demarcated they will doubtless become sanctuaries for wild fauna, the only fear being lest wild elephants should become a serious danger to agriculture.
Trusts that it will shortly be possible to get the Belgian and French Govern- ments to agree to the principle of the prohibition of the killing of elephants having tusks of less than a minimum weight, such weight to be subsequent- ly arranged.
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The Governor
***
Sierra Leone,
137.
25
To Foreign Office...
April 25
25
31
Foreign Office
26
32
Colonial Office
27
33
The Governor
Gambia, 127.
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1913.
May 29
June 7
May 14 (Rec. June 9.)
31
To the Governor
Uganda,
June 18
291.
35
The Governor
East
May 27 Africa (Rec. June 24.) Protec-
torate, 102.
26
The Governor
East Africa Protec- torate, 207.
March 29 (Rec. May 5.)
Expresses opinion that so far as the Uasin Gishu Plateau is concerned the extermination of game is neither de- sired nor desirable.
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36
To the Governor
Gambia, 159.
June 27
27
Mr. Le G. W. Bevan
to Dr. Bagshawe.
Nyasa- land.
May 6
Submits his views on the subject of the possibility or desirability of destroy- ing game.
45
37
Mr. W. F. Fiske
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The Governor
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Southern
April 21 Nigeria, (Rec. May 15.)
193.
Forwards copies of Regulation No. 4 of 1912, for the better protection of female, tuskless, and immature ele- phants.
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33
The Governor
Gold Coast, 379.
June 16 (Rec. July 7.)
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Foreign Office
May 20
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30
The Governor
Uganda, 191.
April 29 (Rec, May 26.)
Transmits a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Ambassador at Lisbon covering a copy and a translation of a Decree modifying the game regula- tions for the territory under the ad- ministration of the Nyass Company.
Transmits copies of the Game Ordinance, No. 7 of 1913, together with the Attorney-General's report; and ex- plains that the licence fee for the second elephant was fixed at Rs. 150 in the draft previously forwarded owing to a misunderstanding, but that
it has now been altered to Rs. 300, or Rs. 450 for two elephants, as in East Africa.
June
£30
To the Governor
East
July 8
49
Africa
Protec-
torate,
543.
40
The Governor
East July 11 Africa (Rec. Aug. 4.) Protec-
torute,
519.
Transmits a copy of a note from His Majesty's Ambassador at Paris to the French Minister for Foreign Affairs stating the attitude of the Belgian Government in the matter of raising the limit of weight of elephants' tusks and enquiring whether the French Government are now in a position to express an opinion on the proposals submitted to them for preserving elephants.
List of references to published works bearing on the question of sleeping sickness and game.
Transmits a copy of a letter from Dr. Hopkinson submitting his views on the subject of Game Reserves; observes that both Travelling Commissioners agree with his own view that reserves are not required, and states that, on the other hand, steps will shortly have to be taken to assist the natives in protecting themselves against the depredations of the hippopotamus, the hyaena, and the warthog.
Sanctions Ordinance enclosed in No. 30 and approves his action as reported therein.
Forwards the Game Amendment Ordi- nance No. VI of 1913, with a memo- randum by the Attorney-General and states that he has assented to the Ordinance, which provides for the protection of the lion and cheetah outside settled areas.
Concurs in the view that reserves are not required at present in Gambia; but enquires whether protective mea- sures might not be advisable in the case of certain bright-coloured birds much sought after by skin-hunters.
Memorandum on the importance of glossina bionomics in relation to sleeping sickness,
States, in reply to No. 12, that, as the greater part of the Colony and of Ashanti is under heavy forest much of which is rarely if ever visited by human beings, he sees little reason to foar the extinction of wild life and accordingly deprecates any adminis trative action.
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60
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Requests some further information as 73
to the necessity for the enactment of the Ordinance enclosed in No. 35,
Transmite returns of game killed in
East Africa Protectorate for 1912-13.
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