§ 31. Sir T. Mooreasked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what forms of co-operation between Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland will operate now that the Central African Federation has been dissolved.
§ The Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations (Mr. John Tilney)Northern and Southern Rhodesia will jointly own and control the Kariba project and the Rhodesia Railways. The three territorial Governments will operate a joint Higher Authority for Civil Air Transport, under which the Central African Airways Corporation will be maintained, and a joint Agricultural Research Council.
All three Governments have recognised the importance of retaining for the time being the general pattern of the Federal tariff and have agreed that goods produced or manufactured in one territory shall, with limited exceptions, continue to be free from protective duty when entering another.
All Governments have agreed on the steps to be taken for introducing separate currencies and in the meantime maintaining the credit of the present currency and the authority of the Bank of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
§ Sir T. MooreI thank my hon. Friend for that very informative and, on the whole, satisfactory reply. May we assume that the future co-operation or organisation of these three States will to some extent follow the amazing multiracial federation established by that great man Sir Roy Welensky?
§ Mr. TilneyIn the political circumstances of dissolution, the very considerable measure of collaboration which I have endeavoured to show in my Answer should go to the credit of my right hon. Friends and all the Governments concerned.
§ Mr. G. M. ThomsonWill the hon. Gentleman tell the House whether various problems relating to the compensation and resettlement of public servants have now been settled?
§ Mr. TilneyPerhaps a Question will be put down about that.