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Appendix IV.
GENERAL FINANCIAL POSITION AS AT 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1916.
Cash in hand :—
Crown Agents
Director
Cash receivable :-
Various Government contributions
Salaries for seven months
Unexpanded balance of Carnegie Fund Stationery Office account to March, 1916
Expenditure.
Receipts.
£ 8. d.
£
B. d.
5,273 10 7
3 5 8
1,730 0
60
0
0 0
Interest (estimated)
Estimated liabilities
for remainder
of
financial year :--
2,285 0 0
1,040 4 2
(thirteen months)
649 18 5
Stegomyia
Survey
in
Far
East
(estimated)
400 0 0
Deficit on Review
400 0 0
300
0 0
Deficit on Bulletin
Subject index to Review
Queen's Gate office
Travelling expenses
Office of Works
Library
General expenses
Balance of Tropical African Fund General balance
56858
No. 75.
胪
150 0 0
110 0 0
98 10
0
45 10 0
30
0 0
50 0
0
5,559
2 7
7,066 16
3
1,000 0
0
507 18
8
£7,066 16
8
£7,066 16
3
SOUTHERN RHODESIA.
THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 27th November, 1916.)
SIR,
2, London Wall Buildings,
London, E.C., 23rd November, 1916.
WITH reference to my letter of the 14th of April last,* on the subject of the position of tsetse fly in Southern Rhodesia, I am directed to forward, for the information of the Secretary of State, the enclosed copy of a report by the Govern- ment Entomologist on the spread of tsetse fly in the Sebungwe District, together with tracings of maps which accompanied the report.
I have, &c.,
A. G. MILLAR,
Assistant Secretary.
Enclosure in No. 75.
Department of Agriculture,
Salisbury (Rhodesia), 23rd September, 1916.
TSETSE FLY INVESTIGATIONS, SEBUNGWE, AUGUST-SEPTEMBER, 1916.
DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE,
I HAVE the honour to report that, in accordance with directions received, I left Salisbury on 4th August in order to visit certain of the tsetse fly areas in the Sebungwe District, returning to Salisbury on 17th September.
No. 81.
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The details and results of this trip are as follows:-
Itinerary.
Salisbury-Que Que; Que Que-Meare's Farm (Sikombella River); Meare's- Robb's Drift (Umniati River) via Gwanyika River; Robb's Drift-Gokwe via Mtanka River and N'jelele's Kraal; Gokwe-Sipani Vlie via Inyoka Estate, Masagaja's Kraal and Dopota Vlie; Sipani Vlie-Gokwe (same route); Gokwe- Malindi via Sengwe, Lutopi Lutotshama, Mzola, Kana, Shangani, and Gwai Rivers, passing through the Kana River block (Liebig's).
Extension of Infested Area.
The fly continues to spread rapidly in certain parts of the district. (1) The most noteworthy and important area in which considerable extension has taken place is in the south-west corner of the big belt, where the fly has advanced in a southerly direction from the Mzola to the Kana River, and in a westerly direction to the Shangani River. The presence of the fly on the Kana has been reported by the Native Commissioner, but at the time of my visit a larger area than that indicated in his report was affected. The three rivers mentioned are at present infested, as follows:-
(a) Mzola River, from about two miles above confluence with Shangani to
Bource.
(b) Kana River, about four miles above confluence with Shangani River,
for a distance of eight-ten miles on both banks (fly numerous).
(c) Shangani River, for three or four miles, from a point two or three miles below Mzola confluence. The fly in this region has extended so rapidly and tsetse is so abundant at one spot on the Kana that it is highly probable that in one or two years' time the whole of the Kana block will be involved, and that the fly will have advanced up the Shangani River The farms on the Gwai River may be into the Shangani Reserve.
affected eventually. (See map attached.)*
(2) At the headwaters of the Mzola River, the southern border of the area known as the Matobolo flats, although no actual advance is recorded, fly is certainly increasing rapidly. The first record for this locality was in 1914, and now the pest is present in great numbers. Incidentally, this is the most open country in which I have yet encountered tsetse. The fly shelters in leafy shrubs, not exceed- ing about twelve feet in height, and sparsely scattered on ant-heaps over the open veld. On approaching these shrubs the flies dart out and attack one. There is a likelihood of fly spreading to the Kana from this area, the distance being only about eight miles.
(3) An advance of seven-eight miles has been made up the Sengwe River since my visit in 1914.
(4) Reports of a fairly reliable nature from hunters indicate that fly has also spread northward in the neighbourhood of Nonyunka's Kraal and Piganinyemba, near the Sengwe and Sasame Rivers.
At other points visited no advance is apparent since 1914. Fly is extremely abundant at Sipani Vlie, not to have increased at Dopota Vlie, nor to have advanced up the Sasame River to any extent from the junction of the Pofwe River, although there was considerable extension at this point, October, 1913-1914. There has also been no further extension up the Umniati River from the neighbour- hood of Ngatsuru's Old Kraal, about eight miles below Robb's Drift.
Note on the spread of Fly from the Mzola to the Kana River.
It is a point of interest to note that the passage from the Mzola River to the Kana River has not been made across the narrowest distance separating these rivers. The portion of the Kana now infested does not appear to be any better suited to tsetse than that between the infested portion and the confluence with the Shangani, where no fly has yet been recorded. On the other hand, the fly infests the Kana along a strip where great numbers of game paths come down to this river from the Mzola, which contains no water during the latter part of the dry The habit of the game at present is to rest and graze during the day about the region of the Mzola, and to move down to the Kana in the evening to drink. The animals do not graze their way down but move over in line, with this
season.
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