Earl WINTERTONasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any decision has yet been reached as to the future location of the administrative capital of the territory of Northern Rhodesia; and whether it is proposed to carry out any Government land-settlement policy in the near future in Northern Rhodesia?
§ Dr. SHIELSThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. With regard to settlement, my Noble Friend has sanctioned expenditure amounting to £59,000 on loans to European farmers for dipping tanks and fencing, on the establishment of a creamery and on assistance towards importation of stock. Assistance from the Colonial Development Fund has enabled him also to sanction expenditure of £23,700 on special agricultural surveys and investigations connected with European settlement and £6,000 on road surveys.