Nyasaland.

  • Colonial Office
Date:
[1930]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Nyasaland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    18/52 page 16
    The following are the estimates of future increase in the districts in which most of the tanks constructed by means of the grant’ from the Colonial Development Fund will be situated :— Present Estimated increase number. in five years. North Nyasa 31,000 13,000 Lilongwe ... 13,000 5,000 Dowa 16,000 6,000 Dedza 17,000 7,000 Ncheu 12,000 5,000 The increase in numbers should be accompanied by an increase in value owing to the improvement in the condition of the herds, and there is no reason why in due course the local demands for ghee and dried meat should not be met entirely by native stock-owners. Experiments in these commodities are now being made, and the natives will not be slow to take the requisite care in the manu¬ facture as soon as they realize that the trade is profitable. There is, of course, also the development of the hide industry which can be undertaken when communications with the northern districts of the Protectorate are improved and market prices revive. During the last three years the Department has trained a number of natives, most of whom are employed as supervisors of dipping tanks. Some of these men have a fair knowledge of elementary veterinary science and have been found very useful on work such as the preparation of specimens for microscopical examinations, intravenous and subcutaneous injections. Decently 15 newly- trained men were sent k> the North Nyasa district to take charge of the tanks erected under the development scheme. The scheme includes provision for an additional veterinary officer and stock inspector, and it is estimated that the recurrent expenditure of the Department will increase by some £2,000 in 1931, rising to £4,000 in 1934. The incidence of rabies has not been so marked as during the previous year, but cases in native dogs continue to be reported. The interest shown by Europeans in their herds continues to increase and the dairy is becoming more and more a feature on plantations in the Shire Highlands. The financial position of the Protectorate generally has not been such as to justify the importation of pedigree live-stock, but there has been a noticeable increase in the sales of pure and half-bred stock born in the country. Forestry. During the year five new forest reserves were constituted hav¬ ing a total area of twenty square miles. The Dzalanyama forest reserve was reduced in area by 52 square miles and the Mangoche reserve by six square miles, both reductions being made in order to
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