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Annual Report of the Game Department for the year ended 31st December, 1935 Item Type monograph Publisher Game Department, Uganda Protectorate Download date 23/09/2021 21:05:22 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/1834/35596 .. UqANDA PROTECTO ATE. I ANNUAL REPO T o THE • GAME DEPARTM~N • FOR THE . Year ended 31st December, 1935. I· ~nhli£heb hll ®ommanb of ll.li£ Ot.n:ellcncrr the Q301mnor. ENTEBBE: PRINTED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTER,. UGANDA• 1936 { .-r ~... .. , LIST OF CONTENTS. SECTION I.-ADMINISTRATION. PAGK. StaJr 3 Financial-Expenditure and Revenue 3 FOR THE DJegal Ki)ling of Game and Breaches of .Bame La"'s ... 5 Game Ordinance, 1926 5 Game Reserves. ... ... ... ... ... 5 Game Trophies, 'including Table of ,,·eight. of "hcence" ivory i SECTION Il.-ELEPHANT CO~TROL. Game Warden Game Ranger8 General Remarks 8 Return of Elephant. Destroyed ... ... •.. 8 Table d Control Ivory. based on tUok weight; and Notes 9 Clerk ... .•. J Table "(11 ,"'onnd Ivory from Uncon[,rolled are:>. ' .. 9 Tabld\'ot Faun.!! Ivory from Controlled sreas; and Notes - 9 Distritt Oont~t ... 10 1. Figures for-I General No~ r-Fatalities 18 Expenditure Elephant Speared 19 Visit to lYlasindi 'Township 19 Revenue Sex R.atio ... 19 Balanc'e 0" Curio,us Injury due to Fighting 19 Elephant Swimming 19 Nalive Tales 20 The revenue was Ri!!es ' 20 t(a) Sale of (b) Sale (c) Gam SECTION IlL-NOTES ON THE FAUNA. Receipts frolIl f\., (A) M'M~I'LS- (i) Primates 21 1934 figures; and from (il) Oarnivora 22 (iii) Ungulates 25 2; The result (8) BIRDS 30 November were quite (0) REPI'ILES 34 mately Shs. 6 at the for Although in th SECTION IV.-GENERAL. price of ivory, there w (A) Diseases of Game 37 ivory at the quarterl (B) EconomIC Industries 39 of the year (in October (0) Notes of General Int..,rest 40 affect the local marke Cow ivory has SECTION V.-FISHERIES. while the prices realI'S' advance and helped con (A) ECONOMIC General 43 The year close Brea·ches of Game Laws (Fish Sections) 44 but with a decided te Development and Oontrol of the Victoria Nyanza F1ShlDg Industry 44 Preparation of Statistics 44 weight. J.1arger tusks 1 Statistical Tables: (A) Number of half·yearly licences issued; 3. Game and ~, (B) Quantities of nets imported; (0) Dried fish landed from Sese and l{orne; Resident' (D) Dried fish imported from Mwa·nza· ; (E) Dried fish exported to Belgian Congo; Visitor's. (' Lake Bunyonyi 46 Resident's I Lake Mutanda ..... 46 Visitor's C' Lake. Mureyhe . 48 Resident' La1.1! Mugisha. (or Rai·yumbu) 48 I,ake Saka 46 Resident' 'Lake Wama.la ... 49 ResIdent's Co~eJal Development: Native's Fi: (i) Lake Albert: Native's L:1ke Albert Resources, Ltd. 50 Other Non-Native Interests 50 Native's Native Industry 51 Bird (il) Lake Edward 52 Resident's (iii) Other Waters ... 54 Resident's (iv) Nsonzi Fishery, E:igezi 64 (v) Introductions 54 Native's' Experimental Nets 54 Native's' LegislaLiou 55 Special L Notes of Geueral Interest 55 .... Q-overnor's ---~ (B) ANGLU1G- (a) Trout 56 .. Includes a (b) Tilopia Nigra m (. 3 THE GAME DEPARTMENT. ANNUAL.REPORT. PAGS. 3 3 FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 ST DECEMBER, 1935. 5 5 5 7' SECTION I.-ADMINI~RATION. Staff List. Game Warden CAP'I'. C. R. S. PITMAN, D.S.O., M.e. Game Rangers CAPT. R. J. D. SALMON, M.e. 8 F. G. BANKS. 8 9 Olerk J. LOBO. 9 Expenditure and Revenue. 9 10 1. Figures for 1935 are as follows: £ shs. "ts. 18 Expenditure 5,:2.85 13 4'1 19 19 Revenue 16,313 16 18 19 Balance of revenue over expenditure 11,028 2 71 19 19 20 The revenue was dehved n,s follows :- £ sbs. cts. 20 tea) Sale of ivory, rhinoceros horns and hippopotamus teeth 13,549 16 18 (b) Sale of buffalo hides and other trophies (c) Game licences and Governor's permits 2,764 0 00 Receipts from f(a) show an increase of £3,992 4s. 18 cts. n,pproximately over 21 1934 figures; and from (c) an increase of £649 168. 22 25 ~. The results of the two ivory auctions held respectively in May and 30 November were quite satisfactory, and the average price per lb. realised was approxi 34 mately Shs. 6 at the former and Shs. 6/55 cents at the latter. Although in the course of the year there has been no spectacular rise in the price of ivory, there was a steady progressive improvement in the prices of soft bull 37 ivory at the quarterly 3,uctions held in London with tbe exception of the last one 39 of the year (in October) when there was a slight decline, which, however, did not 40 affect the local market as revealed by the November average. Cow ivory has been in better demand, and bas found a steadily ritling market, while the prices realised in Mombasa at the November auction showed a marked advance and helped considerably in raising the all-round average to neu.rly Shs. 7 per lb. 43 The year closed with local prices for bull tusks not only firm at Shs. 7 per lb. 44 44 but with a decided tendency to rise, and a good demand for bull ivory of 30 to 40 Ills. 44 weight. Larger tusks were in less demand, and the prices lower. 3. Game and special licences, and Governor's permits were issued:- 1935. 1934. Resident's (Full) 162 150 Visitor's (Full) 3 46 Resident's (Fourteen-day) tj 7 48 Visitor's (Fourteen-day) 2 3 48 4B Resident's or Visitor's First Elephant 39 44 48 Resident's or Visitor's Second Elephant ; 20 18 49 Resident's or Visitor's for rfwo Elephants 34'" 10 Native's First Elephant 17 20 Native's Second Elephant ... 10 5 50 50 Native's Special Licence for Two Elephants 12* 2 51 Bird 617 608 52 Resident's or Visitor's Third Elephant 4 54 Resident's or Visitor's for Three Elephants 1 54 54 Native's Third Elephant 3 54 Native's Special Licence for Three Elephants 55 Special Licence for one Rhinoceros ... 55 Governor's Permits 5 t The gross value realised was £15,401 178. 28ct•. 56 ~7 • Includes a few of the new ,,'two elephant" licence. issued subsequent to 15th Octob.r, 4 In order to make elephant hunting more attractive and also to assist in the sale of Full Licences by virtue of which application can be made for Special Licences, two elephants may now be killed for a c£lO licence when formerly the fee for one was £10. The fee for the Third Elephant is tho same, ,no, as that for the Second Elephant under the previous arnwgement. Similarly tho Native Special Licence for Two Elephants is £5 (the fee for one previously), and. for a third, £10. ; 4. 'rhe revenue from the sale of game and elephant licences shows an appreciable and welcome increase (£64~) 16s.), and if it had been possible to introduce earlier than mid-October the legislation altering the Special Elephant Licence materially in favour of the licence-holder, the improvement doubtless would have been greater. There was a definite increase over the normal monthly average in the value of licences taken out dnring the last two months of the year, and it is anticipated that in 1936 revenue from licences will exceed £3,000, and it is hoped be nearer £3,000. Many sportsmen only ta,ke out the (Full) Game Licence to enable them to obtain Special Elephant Licences, and a considemble increase is expected in the demand for Full IJicences, of which 1935 issues exceed those of 1934 by twelve. Bird Licences are as popular as ever. 5. Uganda Government ivory was sent to Mombasa for sale, and during the year two auctions were held at \yhich the totid weights sold and average prices realised \\'ere as follows ;- • Appl'oximate average Weig-ht. Gl'OSS price realised. price per lb. Jiay- Lbs. :I.: shs. cbs. Shs. cts. 1yo1'"'I" 25,2911 7.584 15 67 6 00 Rhmoceros horns ... 5./; 3 {} 37 12 00 Hippopotamus teeth 137" 9 8 92 1 38 Novcrnbc1'- Ivory ... 23,5841' ... 7,717 1 61 6 55 Rhinoceros horns 10... 7 12 68 15 27 Hippopotamus teeth 871... 3 13 47 0 83 I ~Rhil1oceros horn shows a ma,rked advance on 1934 values; Sh. 1/38 cts. per lb. for . hippopotamus teeth is abnormally high and the usual rate is well below a shilling. 6. The tot2J of 48,856 Ibs., or nearly 22 tons of ivory sold, is a few tons in excess of the quantity disposed of in 1934. These £gures are unlikely to appeal to the bigoted protectionist, but anyone who takes the trouble to study carefully the elephant control section of this Report will realise that our organised methods at present barely control the situ3,tion, and jf we n,re to afford the inhabitants of this fertile bnd the measure of protection which is their due, an annual slaughter of elephants on a large scale is not only necessary but imperative. It is undoubtedly an unpalatable pill for many, though it has to be swallowed. There is more on this subject in otber parts of this Heport. 7. Critics wbo delight to shut tileir eyes to the seriousness of the local situation and deliberately ignore tbat there 3,re such important factors as man and his crops, are, from the recesses .of their comfortable armchairs accustomed to level the accusation that our metbods a.re directly influenced by revenue-making considerations.