§ Major GLYNasked the Prime Minister whether he is aware of the recent decision of the Colonial Office, in consultation with the Treasury, that a now token currency, the exact nature of which has yet to be disclosed, is to be issued in British East Africa, and that whether it shall take the form of the token rupee or token shillings and pence is of vital importance since sterling has been made legal tender; and whether, in view of the fact that the convention of associations hold in British East Africa in January, 1919, unanimously passed a resolution asking that immediate steps be taken to bring the standard currency system of the Protectorate into line with that of other British Protectorates, and that this opinion was shared by the majority of the Government officials in British East Africa, he will have this matter reconsidered?
§ Lieut.-Colonel AMERYI have already explained that the standard currency of East Africa will in future consist of florins and shillings, fixed for exchange purposes at one-tenth and one-twentieth of the pound sterling, and to that extent the East African currency system will be brought into line with this country and such other parts of the Empire as are on a sterling basis. I see no good reason for the further substitution of a division into pence for the division into cents. to which all classes of the community have been accustomed for fifteen years.