§ 63. Mr. T. Reidasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what persons or groups have recommended publicly breaches of the law in Nyasaland or Central Africa recently as a means of preventing Central African Federation.
§ Mr. LytteltonSuch measures have been publicly recommended in Nyasaland on a number of occasions by a small body of Africans styling themselves variously the Nyasaland Chiefs' Conference, the Nyasaland Chiefs' Council and the Supreme Council of Chiefs, Congress and People.
The Nyasaland African Congress have publicly advocated the non-payment of African taxes. Native Authority Msamala ordered his people not to pay taxes, but was taken to task by his Council and promised to withdraw his instructions.
The case of Chief Gomani was described in my reply to the hon. Lady the Member for Flint, East (Mrs. White) and others on 10th June.