§ Mr. Wallasked 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 MacleodFollowing is the information:
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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.
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(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