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Annual Report of the Colonies, Kenya, 1925 FE0 COLONIAL REPORTS—ANNUAL; No. .1881. LONY & PROTECTORATE OF KENYA. REPORT FOR 1925. Reports for 1923 and J924 see Not. 1227 and 1282, respectively {Price 1$. each).] LONDON: AND PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE ased directly irom H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addrcMeai tral House, Kingaway, London, W.C.z j iao» George Street, Edinburgh} York Street, Manchester* i, St. Andrew*! Crescent, Cardiff? 15, Donegal! Square West, Belfast * oi through any Bookseller* I926. Price Is. Net INDEX. I. GEOGRAPHICAL NOTK II.—GENERAL OBSBRVATXONC • * Measures for the Improvement of Native Conditions Public Health Vital Statistics Migration III.—GOVERNMENT FINANCE IV.—TRADE AND AGRICULTURE Imports Exerts Agriculture V.—LAND Mines Forests VI.—LEGISLATION VII,—EDUCATION VIII.—COMMUNICATIONS Railways and Marine Shipping Roads Posts and Telegraphs XiX«~^CLXMATK . > • % APPENDIX I.—Principal Domestic Exports APPENDIX II.—Exports of Native Origin No. 1321 EPORT ON THE COLONY AND PROTECTORATE OF KENYA FOR THE YEAR 1925.* I. Geographical Note. On 29th June, 1925, in pursuance of a treaty between the lited Kingdom and Italy signed at London on 15th July, 1924, e Province of Jubaland, an area of 36,740 square miles, was ded to Italy, The area of the Colony and Protectorate was ereby reduced from 245,060 to 208,320 square miles. During e latter half of the year, the new boundary between British A Italian territory was under demarcation by a Boundary mmissior?. n. General Observations, [I On 10th February, Sir Robert Thorne Coryndon, K.C.M.G., to had been Governor and Commander-in-Chief since 1st fctember, 1922, died in Nairobi. Mr. E. B. Denham, C.M.G., led as Governor until the arrival of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir |W. M. Grigg, K.CV.O., C.M.G., D.S.O., M.C, who landed at lindini on 2nd October and assumed the administration of I Government in Nairobi on the following day. I Sir William Northrup McMillan, Kt, Elected Member of the jgislative CouncU for Ukamba, died at Nice on 22nd March. • 27th April, the Honourable Reginald Berkeley Cole, Elected •mher of the Legislative Council for Kenya, died at Narro Iru, West Kenya. •The Indian Community in Kenya withdrew from the policy •urn-co-operation at the end of 1924. On 3rd April, Mr. V. v. ladke was appointed a Member of the Executive Council; and 1 Nominated Indian Members took their seats on the Legislative Imcil at the August Session. I By Additional Royal Instructions dated the 28th of December, 15, the constitution of the Executive Council was altered, the lector of Agriculture and the Director of Education being ftointed ex-officio Members. At the same time the Director •Education became an ex-officio Member of the Legislative •nci!. The Instructions provided that there should be five iian Elected Members but that until these had been elected mt should be five Nominated Indian Unofficial Members. i Midi Iftiyal tHf»limvwes till? IMltw uttrl IMirhrs* of Y' arrived Itt Kelly;! Hi IJcroUtbeh and ^tlt slfc Weeb <>f HtHUlilg expedition In the twHlbertM* df Mimut Kenya. ijio.Uitst Africa CotnmMou, #hirh \ i^ftotl Kttiva in Mmm? her, htti, itemed life Wrpwi* itt A|*H!; iffc&. Commission was im^vrssed with tftf* need .Mr ^ oM»poirtUon and mvdmtandittft. \\M oflly behveeti 'die ft Adnmv>tt'j*tii>ns but between uYvMttef&J residents \\\ the tTrrinv* as well. lr\ Oetober the fivAt etmfeVence of drleptt'f* of n.u«»fiit:jii1 Kuropean amnnnnilies irt the Kasi AWoati' toiTiim was \w)il at KniiRwe Mission, nent Tnkfiyti, Tftttganyikft TerrV> under iho niairirmnr.hip of Lord IVLWere. IVlogatcv f id Kenya, Taii^anyika. N\asal?md and Northern Rhodesia m payout at th&t Conference Arrangements were put in hand to'ivmvls the end of the v* for holdim.; (he first Conference of KM African Governs Nairobi ii\ luumrw 19*2(1 The y« ar has been marked by a recognition of the .erowj .ntporUmv ot extending educational and medical sendees thn»« out the 1 Y»!ouy The Pstunatos Mr IfW* reflect the effort*. ;* made U\ moot future requirements in these directions F adoption of proposals for erecting hospitals, sehools and buildings om ot lean hmds has greatly increased the -po^M of naaking pro&tvss in establishing such services on a sat isfuetory fooling. The Co!onv has during the course of the year mainly ^tcadv pTOL'i\>s, as b indiea* ^ bv the aeru altwrd, trade railway n turns In errtain parts ot the Colony there w.i: ^hoviae* ot rainfall and its distribution was unusual, but in at pa;-ts. i\rnev:!aih the I'asm Coshn Plateau and Trans \? i'.Mrs, ee«;ubined wuh the extension of the railway s\M haw promo? eu remarkable development, Rmidiu,;; was tvgun in Nairobi for the Municipal Yt housing Sehomc. Progress was continued by the Uganda Kail •for tlu* prevision of sanitary housing tor the native stall over whole extent ot the, line. The "Mombasa Town Dunning Scheme approached compiKl Ah. V Walton bnneson, an ex^rt from Sotuh A trie. | emp]oye<i to ad\i<e on the Mombas<i Scheme and on IHK town planning for NVitmbi. 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A situation which has caused growing jmNiety for mary is that brought about by the continuous increase ift the number! of native-owned cattle. The general result is that the stocj lends to become more numerous than the reserves can eat? and among some tribes, notably the Akafnba, is rapidly detericd ing. To remedy this situation a Biff was drafted, desigmts the Crop Production and Live Stock Ordinance, under which \\ Governor in Council will l>e empowered to make Rules, inter.. #k for the disposal of surplus and undesirable live stock and n\ for limiting the number of stock to l>e carried on any one are Important progress has been made in the delimitation a settlement of the boundaries of native reserves, Pfpvisi« boundaries of all native reserves were gazetted in October, and opportunity was thus given for claims and objections to he which will, when disposed of, lead to a final settlement of t question, The steps taken to promote native agriculture are discus in Chapter IV. The importance of planting trees is being increasingly m nised throughout native areas. It is satisfactory to he able report that in the entirely deforested Machakos Native Rese a scheme has been introduced whereby the Forest Departn re-plants several large areas and the Local Native Cow experiments with the reafforestation of numerous smaller ai scattered through the Reserve. This has eliminated na) opposition in that district to the operatic of the Forest De$ meat and will be of great educative value to the Native Gouj PUBLIC HEALTH.
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