HC Deb 05 June 1961 vol 641 cc64-9W
Mr. Wall

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what grants and loans have been made by the Exchequer or by Government agencies to the Northern Rhodesian and Nyasaland Governments, respectively, in each year since 1953.

Mr. Iain Macleod

Following is the information:

NYASALAND
(a) ASSISTANCE UNDER COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE ACTS
Grants approved and total issues made between 1st April, 1953 and 31st March, 1961
U.K. Financial Year Total issues on all projects (including those approved prior to 1953) during year Amount of Grant Project
£ £
1953–54 576,287 187,563 *Road Development programme
10,716 *Geological Survey
1,450 *Reconstruction of Zomba Mental Hospital
40,000 *Construction of housing for African employees
31,305 *Education Department
800 *Forestry Depot at Blantyre
7,400 Veterinary Training Centre
17,000 Construction of Trade School
71,000 Road making plant
5,467 Leprosy Survey
37,000 Agricultural Training Centre
184,210 Road Construction Organisation
1,350 Mobile Book Shop
4,024 *Agricultural Research Station
1954–55 384,828 324,080 *Housing for African employees
18,000 *Aeronautical telecommunication services
5,407 *Afforestation, Mudi Dam
1,660 *Forestry Depot at Blantyre
22,700 Rice growing survey
88,000 Waterborne sewerage in African residential areas
91,370 Timber Utilization
17,780 Silvicultural Research
1955–56 882,172 23,142 Rural Water Supplies
80,000 African housing
140,000 Acquisition of land for African settlement
55,000 Construction of forest roads
140,000 Educational development
48,000 European housing
40,000 Provision of Welfare centre
473,050 Road improvements
1956–57 290,024 38,790 Construction of dipping tanks
1,080 Water supply for Silvicultural Station
79,473 Agricultural Research Station
1,579 *Fisheries Research Organisation
9,022 Fisheries Research Organisation
14,487 Cotton Pest research
270 Water supply to Silvicultural Station
1957–58 503,160 1,774 *Rice growing survey
145,800 *Waterborne sewerage in African areas
34,200 Acquisition of land for African settlement
25,000 African housing Estates
10,335 Carbonatite investigations
55,800 Acquisition of land for African settlement
18,395 *Agricultural Research Station
1958–59 291,527 52,439 Vipya Forestry Operations
35,526 Mineral investigation section of Geological Survey
45,400 African housing estates
80,750 Teacher Training Centre
2,340 Rabies control
20,000 Survey of iron ore deposits
4,846 * *Silvicultural research
7,220 Coffee disease investigation

U.K. Financial Year Total issues on all projects (including those approved prior to 1953) during year Amount of Grant Project
£ £
1959–60 321,404 50,441 * Mineral investigation section of Geological Survey
29,750 *Teacher training centre
175,576 Road development, 1958–60
76,500 Girls' secondary school
18,750 Farm institute at Makanga
187,317 Development of public land
90,000 Reconstruction of Chole-Cherome road
1,200 Research in monazite ore
900,000 Blantyre/Limbe water supply improvement
20,153 *Cotton pest research
3,797 *Coffee disease investigation
1960–61 1,090,836 247,500 Chileka-Matope road
11,869 Carbonatite research
50,400 Road Link
257,957 African education
17,180 School accommodation
18,319 Cholo water supply
9,360 Rabies control
26,100 African travellers' rest house
60,964 Playing fields
224,421 African land re-organisation
8,577 Mingoli estate purchase
8,170 Dipping tanks
8,550 Boluka Water Supply
21,675 Water development
9,180 Coffee research
18,870 Ecological survey
62,645 Agricultural Research Station
4,340,238 5,467,221
NOTE: * Supplementary Grant.

(b) ASSISTANCE UNDER COLONIAL SERVICES VOTE
Grants and Loans approved and issues made between 1st April, 1953 and 31st March, 1961
U.K. Financial Year Issues Amount approved Project
£ £
1953–54 14,670 14,670 Interest and sinking fund payments on Stock—Grant
1959–60 725,000 1,735,000 Emergency expenditure—Grant in aid
275,000 568,000 —Loan
1,014,670 2,317,670

(c) ASSISTANCE BY COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Capital Sanctions and Issues between 1st April, 1953 and 31st March, 1961
Project Capital Sanction Issues by U.K. Financial Years
1953–54 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1960–61 Total 1953–61
£ £ £ £ £ £ £
Kasungu Tobacco Estates (first issue made in 1950). 415,000 7,500 16,000 23,500
Mudi River Water Board 1,300,000
(approved March, 1960). African Housing 1,000,000 400,000 600,000 1,000,000
Vipya Tung Estate (first issue made in 1949). 1,000,000 40,000 50,000 10,000 50,000 50,000 200,000
3,715,000 40,000 50,000 417,500 650,000 66,000 1,223,500

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