§ Mr. RAFFANasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has yet received the return for which he made a request in March last as to how many of the 35,000 Rhodesian natives, referred to in White Book Cmd. 547, have already been removed from their holdings; and what financial provision has been, or will be, made to them in order to cover the cost of rebuilding their houses and kraals upon, and the bringing into cultivation of the new land upon which they have been, or are to be located?
§ Lieut.-Colonel AMERYThe Report referred to has been received. Of the 35,000 natives mentioned, 5,514 had already moved of their own accord between 1917 and May of this year. The Native Commissioners have been instructed to assist the natives to the best of their ability in their removals, but no special financial provision is considered to be necessary for the purposes suggested. Changing the sites of their404W kraals is no hardship to the natives, who constantly do so of their own accord; nor is any expense whatever involved in building the kraals, as all the material necessary is obtainable on the spot.