§ 63. Mr. GILLETTasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that at a Government sale of farms at Tanganyika in October, 1928, it was announced that 20s. would be given as compensation for the loss of the use of the land for cultivation purposes in the case of each native affected; and whether this is all the compensation given to a native whose land is sold by the Government to non-natives?
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREI have not seen such an announcement and I am not aware of the place to which the hon. Member alludes. No land (other than areas of freehold land alienated by the former German Government) can be sold in Tanganyika, and no non-native can be granted a lease of any land that is in the lawful occupation of a native. I understand, however, that in certain cases where a native has had an isolated rice patch or plot of vegetable cultivation within an otherwise unoccupied area he has been offered the alternative of retaining the patch or of receiving some monetary compensation.