§ MR. REESI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that, owing to the insufficiency of steamer communication on the East Coast of Africa, three mails sometimes reach Zomba and Blantyre together after a failure for two consecutive weeks; and whether the Colonial Office will take into consideration the needs of Nyassaland in this behalf when the question of improving communications in this quarter arises.
§ MR. CHURCHILLThe needs of Nyassaland will certainly be taken into consideration when there is any opportunity of improving communications with the East Coast of Africa, but, as I said on Tuesday last in reply to a Question by my hon. friend the Member for the Chippenham Division, the negotiations with this object have not up to the present been successful. I have no information with regard to the cases of delay in the delivery of mails to which the hon. Members refers.