SIR GILBERT PARKERI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any stops are being taken to promote white settlements on the upland districts of British East Africa; and whether it is the intention of the Administration to bring Indian settlers to these districts, which are suitable for European colonisation.
§ MR.CHURCHILLNo special steps are being taken to induce persons to leave this country in order to settle in 359 the East Africa Protectorate; but the Government is incurring considerable expenditure on the Survey, Veterinary and Agricultural Departments, and in other ways, in order to assist those who have actually settled there. I am not by any means in a position to say that British Indian subjects will be altogether excluded from these districts.
§ SIR J. RANDLES (Cumberland, Cockermouth)Is there any probability of the Report referred to in the Question being speedily brought before the House?
§ MR. CHURCHILLI did not refer to a Report. I said the Government were incurring considerable expenditure in developing these particular Departments.