COLONIAL OFFICE QUESTIONS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20909, 17 July 1933, Page 9

COLONIAL OFFICE QUESTIONS.

DISCUSSION IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. KENYA AND PALESTINE. 'Baii'isn official v. ii-.i.i.r.bs.t (Received July 16, 7.5 p.m.) RUGBY, July 14. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary of State for the Colonies, referring to the Kenya gold discoveries in the House of Commons, in the Colonial Office debate, said that new areas were being developed. An ordinance of a drastic kind, which the mining community welcomed, ensured that undesirable persons should not prospect in the native reserves. Liberal compensation for temporary disturbance was being paid to the natives. Dealing with Palestine he said that the British Government concurred in the decision of the High Commissioner's tribunal of enquiry regarding the settlement of displaced Arabs. It was proposed that the Palestine Government's extensive programme of public works and resettlement of displaced Arabs should to a large extent be financed by a loan of £2,000,000. The British Government was satisfied that without drawing on the exchequer the financial resources of Palestine were adequate to provide for the services of the loan, and to afford full security for the capital. It was proposed that the loan should receive the formal guarantee of the British Government. The works would include water supplies for Jerusalem and Haifa and a drainage scheme, a hydrographic survey, and the improvement of village water supplies.