Mr. David Adams:

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the previous shortage of trained teachers in the education services, and of trained staff in the medical and health services of Kenya Colony, has now been fully overcome; and, if not, what steps are being taken to this end?

Mr. M. MacDonald:

Under present economic conditions it is quite out of the question for the Government of Kenya or of any other African dependency to provide all the trained medical and educational staff that could usefully be employed, nor do I foresee any possibility of fully meeting requirements until the African himself has been trained to carry out these services among his own people. I hope that Makerere College will help considerably to provide this trained African personnel.

Mr. Adams:

I take it that the shortage is being gradually overcome?

Mr. MacDonald:

As far as financial conditions permit.