§ Sir R. Gowerasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will cause the Governments concerned to impose a dog tax in East Africa to diminish lack of proper care and disease of these animals.
§ Mr. Emrys-EvansI have been asked to reply. Annual licence fees for dogs are already payable in townships in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika, and generally in. Zanzibar, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. The relevant legislation provides adequately for the control of dogs, 1891W including registration and destruction in cases of non-registration, and for anti-rabies measures. Except in Nyasaland, legislation exists in all the East African territories which makes it an offence to cause or to permit to be caused, any unnecessary suffering to any animal.