§ Sir J. Wardlaw-Milneasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether figures can be supplied showing the approximate present investments of cooperative societies, building societies, friendly societies and trades unions in land, buildings, mortgages and Government loans.
§ Mr. PeakeFigures showing the present investments are not available, but the latest available figures and the year to which they relate are as follow:
§ Colonel StanleyThe latest information available covers the year 1943. There were no fresh outbreaks of epizootic proportions in Kenya during the year. In the settled areas 13 outbreaks were confirmed, of which eight were attributable to contact with infected game. Most of the outbreaks were suppressed by inoculations and mortality was light. In the 809W native areas eight outbreaks, with a low incidence of infection, were reported in reserves where an almost complete cover was obtained in the 1942 mass inoculations. In other reserves where for various reasons—shortage of staff, unfavourable weather conditions or the attitude of native stock owners—mass inoculations could not be undertaken, the incidence of infection remained high. At the end of the year there was, from Lake Victoria to the Coast, practically a continuous belt of immune cattle varying considerably in depth but almost everywhere extending to the railway line. The Directors of the Veterinary Departments in Kenya and Tanganyika work in close collaboration in the control of rinderpest, and at a conference held in Tanganyika early this year plans were made for simultaneous inoculation of cattle on the Tanganyika side of the border and of the natural calf increase on the Kenya side.