§ Earl Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if the Wood-Winterton Agreement in regard to the demarcation of land is still in operation in Kenya; and what is the estimated area of land suitable for European settlement in the Highlands which is still unoccupied.
§ Colonel StanleyAs regards the first part of the Question, the policy of His Majesty's Government in regard to the reservation of the Highlands is as stated in the Devonshire White Paper of July, 1923, which of course was subsequent to the Wood-Winterton Agreement. As regards the second part, it is estimated that some 704,000 acres of the land reserved for Europeans are still unalienated, of which 650,000 acres are described as arid pastoral land.