Part of Oral Answers to Questions — African Colonies – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 5 Tachwedd 1947.
I do not understand what the hon. Baronet means by slaughter." There is no mass slaughter in any of our territories as far as I am aware. It is true that the game population in East Africa has declined, apart from the elephant population, but that is mainly due to native slaughter, not on a mass scale at all. There has been some mass slaughter in Southern Rhodesia in order to get rid of the tsetse fly, but the hon. Gentleman will understand that Southern Rhodesia does not come under the Colonial Office.