§ Colonel DAYasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware of the reluctance among Mohammedan tribes in East Africa to send their children to missionary schools; and will he take steps for providing increased educational facilities of an elementary kind by the provision of Government schools, so as to embrace the children of native parents belonging to the Mohammedan faith?
§ Mr. AMERYI am aware of the existence among Mohammedans in East Africa (as elsewhere) of the feeling to which the hon. Member refers. There are already Government schools which are open to Mohammedan children, in most, of the East African Dependencies, and the ques- 763W tion of increasing their number is engaging attention.