Part of Oral Answers to Questions — India. – in the House of Commons at on 4 February 1929.
The boundary in question has already been re-considered, as it was found that certain of the natives had been for some years accustomed to graze their stock to the south of it, and had patches of cultivation along the Tana river. According to the latest information which I have received from Kenya, it is proposed to adopt two rivers known as the Izima and the Rungu, with a line joining their sources, as the South-East boundary of the Reserve, thus adding an area of 49 square miles to the Reserve, as gazetted in 1926. I gather that the rest of the area beyond this new line which was included in the Nyeri Reserve when the boundaries were published for criticism in October, 1925, is not occupied and is not required for the natives of that Reserve; but instructions have been given that no part of that area should be alienated without the prior approval of the Secretary of State.