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QUESTION ASKED IN THE HOUSE OP COMMONS BY 

 S. IT. WHITBBEAI), ESQ., M.P., DECEMBEB 19, L906. 



Q. Mr. Whitbehad, — To ask the Under Secretary of State for 

 the Colonies, whether the Secretary of State has observed the 

 estimate by Mr. P. J. Jackson, Deputy Commissioner for the East 

 Africa Protectorate;, given on page 344 of [Cd. 3189], that the 

 revenue derived from game licenses, Customs dues, and other 

 expenditures by hunting parties in that Protectorate cannot, be 

 less than .£20,000 annually; that, in Mr. Jackson's opinion, the 

 only hope of keeping up this revenue lies in the establishment of 

 an efficient Game Banger's Department ; whether the Government 

 are taking, or contemplate taking, stops to establish such a depart- 

 ment on an adequate scale ; whether the areas of the reserves in 

 the East Africa Protectorate, the Budonga and Toro reserves in 

 Uganda, and the Elephant Marsh reserve in British Central Africa 

 have been reduced during the present year ; if so, whether the 

 Secretary of State has sanctioned such reductions ; whether the 

 regulations of the East Africa Game Ordinance, 1906, as to the 

 size of ivory, have boon relaxed as to ivory in transit from 

 Uganda ; whether his attention has been called to the remarks by 

 Mr. Jackson, in paragraph 4, page 342, of the same Blue Book, on 

 the trade in game hides from German East Africa via Mombasa ; 

 and whether the Government will take steps to check such trade. 

 [19th December, 1 906. | 



A. Mr. Churchill. — The answer to the first part of the 

 honourable Member's question is in the affirmative. With regard 

 to the second part of his question I would refer him to Lord 

 Elgin's despatch at page 386 of Cd. 3189, in which his Lordship 

 instructed the Commissioner of the East Africa Protectorate to 

 bring forward the question of establishing a Game Banger's 

 Department in connection with the Estimates for 1907-8. These 

 Estimates will be received very shortly, and the matter will then 

 be carefully considered. 



With regard to the third part of the question, the boundaries 

 of the Beserves in the East Africa Protectorate have been re- 

 defined by the Ordinance of the 14th of April, a copy of which is 

 printed at pages 356-365 of Cd. 3189 ; but, so far as I can see, 

 no important reductions have been made. The Budonga and Toro 

 Beserves in Uganda have been reduced during the present year, 



