§ 13. Major Wallasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the increase of game poaching in Kenya and Tanganyika, he will increase the penalties particularly against receivers and the illegal export of ivory.
§ Mr. HareThe measures needed to check the activities of poachers and receivers, including the deterrent effect of existing penalties, are at present being specially studied by the Governments of Kenya and Tanganyika.
§ Major WallWould not my right hon. Friend agree that although the Government of Kenya and the Wild Life Society are doing their best to preserve wild life in Kenya, there is great difficulty in checking smuggling; and it may well be that the best method of checking it would be to make the game not worth the candle, and that that applies particularly to ivory smuggling to the coast?
§ Mr. HareI agree, and it is for this reason that a committee has been set up in each of these two territories.