Protectorate has severely strained the existing educa- 

 tional facilities, and concentrated attention on the 

 necessity for extension and improvement An 

 increased grant for educational purposes was unani- 

 mously agreed to by the Legislative Council in its 

 opening session this year, and from the attention being 

 shewn in the education problems of the country by 

 all sections of the community, it is to be expected 

 that educational facilities will be greatly extended in 

 the near future. 



The native population of the Protectorate has labour 

 been estimated at over 4,000,000, of which number the 

 greater part is accounted for by the tribes from which 

 labour is recruited. From this it wdl be apparent that 

 there is no question of the labour being present in 

 the country — the problem is one of having it available 

 when and where required, and of education. The 

 natives being mostly confined in reserves, organisation 

 is necessary to regulate the flow to those districts far 

 removed from native locations (in their vicinity little 

 or no difficulty being experienced in obtaining all the 

 labour required) and legislation is under consideration 

 to deal with this problem. The East African native 

 is adaptable and quick to learn if given an incentive 

 to do so. Certain tribes, as for instance the Masai, 

 prefer to work only in connection with stock, their 

 services as herds being much in demand. Others, like 

 the Kavirondo from the Lake district, shew themselves 

 highly adaptable in learning the use of modern agri- 

 cultural implements, while the Wakamba, not 

 specially favoured for ordinary agricultural work, dis- 

 play marked intelligence in certain directions, particu- 

 larly in deahng with machinery. Most of the skilled 

 labour is done by Indian artisans, of whom there are 

 large numbers in the country, but there is a steady 

 flow into the Protectorate of natives of Uganda trained 

 by the industrial mission there, and the local missions 

 are teaching trades to the more intelligent of the 

 natives who come to them for instruction. 



The discerning reader of this book will note that, fifteen 

 while many branches of agriculture and livestock are years 

 established on sound commercial lines, ensuring a peogkbss 

 handsome return on invested capital, others are still 

 the subject of experiment, or only emerging from 

 the experimental stage. 



