asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what active policy is being pursued in Nyasaland to discourage the continued drainage of men from the Protectorate; and what programme in regard to agricultural development, low wages and poor standards of living is being prepared.

The Nyasaland Post-War Development Committee is preparing a comprehensive post-war programme, covering agricultural and other forms of development, designed to raise the standard of living of the population in both the economic and the social sphere. It is the intention of the Nyasaland Government actively to pursue a planned policy of development, the implementing of which will discourage excessive emigration from the Protectorate.

Will these plans be eligible for grant from the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund?

Most certainly.