– in the House of Commons at on 27 March 1935.
Sir Robert Hamilton
, Orkney and Shetland
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the numbers of the various non-native residents in Tanganyika according to nationality?
Mr Philip Lloyd-Greame
, Hendon
As the answer contains a number of figures, I will, with the hon. Member's permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
The latest figures available are those provided by the non-native census taken in April, 1931. There were at that date in the Territory 8,228 Europeans, 23,422 Indians, 1,722 Goans, 7,059 Arabs, 15 Ceylonese, and 574 "others." Of the Indians, 23,280 were British subjects. The European community was as follows:
| Total. | |
| British (including South African Dutch) | 4,011 |
| American | 88 |
| Austrian | 34 |
| Belgian | 98 |
| Bulgarian | 1 |
| Czecho-Slovak | 15 |
| Danish | 49 |
| Dutch | 141 |
| French | 199 |
| German | 2,149 |
| Greek | 918 |
| Hungarian | 4 |
| Italian | 150 |
| Latvian | 9 |
| Lithuanian | 3 |
| Luxembourger | 5 |
| Norwegian | 22 |
| Polish | 13 |
| Portuguese | 5 |
| Roumanian | 10 |
| Russian | 18 |
| Spanish | 2 |
| Swedish | 42 |
| Swiss | 220 |
| South American | 8 |
| Yugo-Slav | 4 |
| Others | 10 |
| Total | 8,228 |
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