§ 28 and 29. Mr. Parkerasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies (1) how much land is being used in Tanganyika for co-operative settlement of Africans from overcrowded areas in Tanganyika and Kenya;
(2) how many acres of land have been leased for private settlement by Europeans over the last two years in Tanganyika under the Land Settlement Board; and how much settlement of Africans has taken place in the same period.
Mr. Dugdale172,856 acres have been leased to Europeans during the past two years. I regret that no accurate figures are available of the acreage involved in African settlement, but the various resettlement schemes most certainly involved many hundreds of square miles. No co-operative settlement is being attempted at present, since no tribe in Tanganyika is yet ready to abandon its traditional system of cultivation based on the family unit. There is no proposal to move Kenya Africans to Tanganyika.