§ Mr. J. HOPE SIMPSONasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any, and, if so, how many natives are settled on land in Southern Rhodesia outside the area of the native reserves; what area is so occupied; and whether the native settlers have made any claim to the ownership of the land on which they are settled?
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GORENatives have always been allowed to live on the un-alienated lands outside the reserves, subject to the payment of a small rent, but I could not give the figures asked for without reference to Rhodesia. A few natives also own land individually. The question of the ownership of the un-alienated lands was settled by the judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1918.