asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any improved harbour, facilities are projected for the British Cameroons; and when these are likely to be completed.

The existing harbour facilities in the British Cameroons, which comprise a deep water wharf at Tiko, the property of the Cameroons Development Corporation, and a deep sea anchorage at Victoria, are considered ample for the existing volume of trade. Consideration has been given to a proposal to extend a wharf at Bota, owned by the Cameroons Development Corporation, to permit coastal vessels to berth alongside, but I am advised that the present volume of trade would not justify expenditure on the scale which would be involved by such an extension.