§ 9. Mr. BANFIELDasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will state 1694 what reply he has made to the memorandum addressed to him by a joint committee of representative Kikuyu organisations, urging representation of Africans by Africans on certain bodies concerned with native interests, the representation of Kikuyu interests by an elected paramount chief, the opening of a college for secondary education for African children, the teaching of English instead of Swahili in elementary schools, the restitution of alienated land, the abolition of the but tax and of the Native Registration Ordinance, the payment of proper salaries to African civil servants and chiefs, and the abolition of restrictions on coffee growing by natives?
§ Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTERI have asked the Governor of Kenya for his comments on this memorandum, and propose to await them before considering my reply.