§ 14. Mr. THURTLEasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the total amount of native land which has been alienated in Kenya Colony during the last three years; and how much of this land is known to have passed into the ownership of one individual?
§ Mr. AMERYFrom 1923 onwards the alienations of native land have amounted to 1,485 acres, of which 871 acres have 850 been applied to purposes for native benefit such as trading centres, sites for factories dealing with native products, Government experimental farm, and Mission plots. Of the rest, 500 acres were required for a township site in a newly administered native area, 110 acres were exchanged for an area of 65 acres of more value to the natives concerned and with their full approval, and 4 acres were leased for a saw mill site. The only instance of the land going to an individual was that of the lease of a 3-acre maize-mill site to an Indian, and there is no reason to believe that in any other case has the land subsequently passed to an individual. My information on this subject extends up to August, 1925.