HC Deb 27 March 1935 vol 299 cc1887-8
7. Sir ROBERT HAMILTON

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the numbers of the various non-native residents in Tanganyika according to nationality?

The SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES (Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister)

As the answer contains a number of figures, I will, with the hon. Member's permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.

Following is the answer:

The latest figures available are those provided by the non-native census taken in April, 1931. There were at that date in the Territory 8,228 Europeans, 23,422 Indians, 1,722 Goans, 7,059 Arabs, 15 Ceylonese, and 574 "others." Of the Indians, 23,280 were British subjects. The European community was as follows:

Total.
British (including South African Dutch) 4,011
American 88
Austrian 34
Belgian 98
Bulgarian 1
Czecho-Slovak 15
Danish 49
Dutch 141
French 199
German 2,149
Greek 918
Hungarian 4
Italian 150
Latvian 9
Lithuanian 3
Luxembourger 5
Norwegian 22
Polish 13
Portuguese 5
Roumanian 10
Russian 18
Spanish 2
Swedish 42
Swiss 220
South American 8
Yugo-Slav 4
Others 10
Total 8,228

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