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COLONY AND PROTECTORATE OF KENYA SESSIONAL PAPER No. 97 of 1955 t PROGRESS REPORT i ON THE vi ■■ THREE-AND-A-HALF-YEAR DEVELOPMENT PLAN i ; f ■ .'gmsmAv VQ 1 3* i °V 19SS 30 /? iSglNgoT"" ---' 1955 S'by THE GOVERNMENT PRINTER, NAIROBI s : 328.676204 | Price: S/i. 5 KEN. ------ "x. ---- r SESSIONAL PAPER No. 97 OF 1955 FOREWORD In paragraph 27 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955 the Government announced that the Development Committee of the Council of Ministers fore­ shadowed in Command Paper No. 9103* had been appointed and instructed— (a) to review the progress of the present three-and-a-half-year plan and having, (i) invited Ministers in charge of departments to suggest modifications or extensions: and (ii) considered the internal consistency and structure of the plan; to make recommendations to the Council of Ministers from time to time; (b) to make recommendations on priorities in relation to works capacity and the availability of funds and to define the stages in which the plan should be carried out; (c) to consult with the Treasury and Ministers concerned to ensure that the necessary resources are available for the completion of each stage. 2. During the five months which have elapsed since the Development Estimates for 1955-56 were laid on the Table of Legislative Council, the Govern­ ment has examined the adequacy of the allocations made for the various avenues of development and some of the problems connected with the implementation of the three-and-a-half-year plan. 3. In view of the great importance of the Government's development plans for the successful achievement of the policy aims summarized in the Eighteen- Point Statement of Policy issued on 5th July, 1954, this Paper is laid on the Table and published for general information. The Legislative Council is to be invited to approve by resolution the proposals contained in Chapters 11 and 111 in due course. In due course, a separate Paper will be laid describing the progress of the five-year plan for the intensified development of African agriculture.*!* Nairobi, Kenya. 5th October, 1955. * Kenya: Proposals for the Reconstruction of the Government (H.M.S.O., 1954). t For the relation between this plan and the general development plan vide paragraph 185 and Table 59 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955. CONTENTS 1—Introduction. II—Amendments to Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955. Ill—Spending Programme, 1955-56. IV—Progress of Expenditure. Y—Financial Position. TABLES I.—Three-and-a-Half-Year Development Plan, 1954-57. (Revision of Table 45 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955.) 2.—Allocations under Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan by Ministerial Portfolios. (Revision of Table 85 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955.) 3.—Total Government Capital Expenditure, 1954-57. (Revision of Table 90 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955.) 4.—Forecast of Demands on Public Works Department Capacity, 1955-56. 5.—Proposed Reductions in 1955-56 Development Estimates. 6.—Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan: Estimated Expenditure 1st January. 1954, to- 30th June, 1956. 7.—Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan: Estimated Balances at 1st July. 1956. 8.—Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan : Financial Summary. 9.—Forecast of Available Funds. 1954-57. (Revision of Table 43 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955.) 10.—Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan: Adjusted Forecast of Balance at 1st July, 1956. ( APPENDICES A. —Revision of Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan. B. Element in Individual Allocations Reimbursable from Colonial Development and Welfare Vote (Colony's Block Allocation). (Revision of Table 89 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955.) C.— Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955: Corrigenda. ; i i ! 1 i ! * CHAPTER I—INTRODUCTION This Sessional Paper has four objects: — (r/)To seek the approval of the Legislative Council to certain amendments to the development plan covering the three and a half years 1st January, 1954, to 30th June, 1957, described in Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955.* (b) To inform the Legislative Council of the decisions taken by the •Govern­ ment as regards spending priorities in the fiscal year 1955-56. (c) To report on the progress so far in the implementation of the development plan. L/)To review the financial position. * Approved by resolution on 19th April, 1955. ! * 2 ; CHAPTER II—AMENDMENTS TO SESSIONAL PAPER No. 51 OF 1955 2. The approved plan envisages expenditure of £23,688,350 during the threc- and-a-half-year period 1st January, 1954, to 30th June, 1957, and is summarized in Table 45 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955. The proposed amendments to the plan are shown in Table 1 below. There is a net decrease in the plan value of £792,445 but this is mainly due to a reduction of £1.0 million in the allocation for the Local Government Loans Authority in view of the possibility that the Nairobi City Council will be permitted to raise a £3.0 million loan—of which £2.0 million will represent new money—as opposed to the £2.0 million originally approved.* This means that the Government’s own loan programme is reduced by the same amount and that the capital gap on the plan remains unaffected. : ! :: : ♦Paragraph 203 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955. 1 L. -J, Table 1.—Three-and-a-Half-Yhar Development Plan, 1954-57 (Revision of Table 45 of Sessional Paper No. 51 oj 1955) I ' Proposed i Approved Allocation Supplementary Savings Revised Allocation Allocation No. Portfolio i i Gross Net | Gross Net j Gross Net Gross Net (1) J (2) : (3) (4) (5) (6) ! (7) (8) i ] £ £ £ C £ £ £ £ I Chief Secretary 1 ! StalT Housing .. I 1,006,000 si4,9oo ; I 36,000 970.000 814,900 2 Government Offices .. | 448,570 368,170 | 1,300 448,570 369,470 3 j Parliament Buildings 54,674 54,674 ! 54,674 54,674 4 ! Information Department .. I 11,200 11,200 i 11,200 11,200 Total .. ! 1,520,444 ! 1,248,944 1,300 36,000 1.484,444 1,250,244 . Minister for Legal Affairs 5 Judicial Buildings 72,207 58,507 I 72,207 | 58,507 Total .. 72,207 58,507 i 72,207 58,507r Minister for African Affairs i 6 Administrative Sub-stations 312,700 253,800 5,900 306,800 j 253,800 7 Buildings, N.F.P. 7,169 5,809 | 7,169 i 8 5,809Nandi Hills Project 5,470 5.470 | i 5,470 5,470 9 Fort Smith Swahilis 4,250 4,250 j 4,250 1 4,250 Total .. 329,589 269,329 j 5,900 323,689 269,329 — — i ^ABLE —Three-and-a-Half-Year Development Plan, 1954-57_(Contd.) Proposed Approved Allocation Supplementary Savings Revised Allocation No. Portfolio Allocation ; Gross Net ! Gross ! 0) Net(2) I (3) 1 (4) Gross Net Gross Net(5) (6) (7) (8) £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ Minister for Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Water Resources 10 Agriculture 1,541,058 11 i Veterinary Services 1,472,758 16,450 16,450 16,450 16,450 1,541,058 j 1,472,758 12 j Water ........................... 83,690 83,690 16,6751,042,700 16,675 13 African Land Development 908,700 148,500 120,700 — 100,365 j 100,365 971,900 14 Loans for African Agriculture and Live- 971,900 | — —* 1,191,200 ; 1,029,400 — 971,900 j 971,900 I stock 15 I European Settlement 68,750 68,750 | — 68,750 I 68,750350.000 350,000 — i 16 f Indian and Arab Settlement 30,000 30,000 — — 350,000 1 350,000 17 ! LoansmadeunderAgriculture Ordinance, — 30,000 i 30,000 100.000 100,000 100,000 i 100,000 Total .. 4,188,098 3,985,798 181,625 153,825 16,450 16,450 4,353,273 4,123,173 I ! Minister for Internal Security and Defence I j‘ 18 Police Buildings (including forts) .. ! 1,905,190 | 1,569,900 19 | Prison Buildings......................... 9,700 1,895,490 ! 1,569,900 .. i 1,060,000 I 858,600 20 Military Buildings 19,500 15,700 1,040,500 842,900.. ! 1,125,000 993,600 1,125,000 993,600 Total .. .. j 4,090,190 3,422,100 1 29,200 , 15,700 4,060,990 j 3,406,400 i Table 1Three-and-a-Half-Year Development Plan, 1954-57—(GW.) ! Proposed i Approved Allocation ! Supplementary : Savings Revised Allocation I Allocation No. Portfolio Gross j Net Gross Net Gross Net i Gross Net (1) i (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ Minister for Local Government, Health and Housing 21 Local Government Loans Authority 3,025,000 3,025,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 ! 2,025,000 1 2,025,000 22 Medical Services 1,097,484 1,005,784 152,150 1 152,150 6,755 6,755 : 1,242,879 j 1,151,179 23 African Housing 256,250 256,250 45,000 45,000 128,750 128,750 172,500 172,500 I Total .. 4,378,734 4,287,034 197,150 | 197,150 1,135,505 1,135,505 3,440,379 j 3,348,679 Minister for Education, Labour and Lands ! L/i 24 ! European Education • 880,000 727,200 — 880,000 I 727,200 25 Asian Education I; 1,176,000 1,020,200 1,176,000 ! 1,020,200 26 African Education : 1,310,500 1,233,300 15,100 1,295,400 1,233,300 27 Arab Education 55,600 45,900 i 11,800 9,500 ' 11,800 9,500 55,600 | 45,900 28 Education: Special Schemes I 225,531 j 221,731 i 20,000 20,000 20,000 16,200 ; 225,531 225,531 29 Labour Department 6,400 | 5,200 | — | 6,400 5,200 30 Purchase of Land .. 51,000 i 51,000 8,000 8,000 43,000 43,000 Total .. 3,705,031 3,304,531 31,800 29,500 54,900 33,700 | 3,681,931 3,300,331 Minister for Forest Development, Game and Fisheries \ 31 Forestry 160,500 | 159,600 31,500 31,500 35,000 35,000 157,000 ' 156,100 32 National Parks and Tourism 67,500 j 67,500 67,500 67,500 33 ; Fisheries 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 : Total .. 238,000 237,100 31,500 31,500 35,000 35,000 i 234,500 233,600 _ Table 1.—Three-and-a-Half-Year Development Plan, 1954-57—(Canid.) i Proposed Approved Allocation | Supplementary Savings Revised Allocation ! Allocation No. Portfolio Gross Net Gross : Net Gross Net | Gross i Net0) (2) (3) (4) J (5) (6) (7) (8) £ £ £ £ 1 £ £ £ £ Minister for Commerce and Industry : ; 34 Post Office Renewals Fund 257,250 257,250 ! 257,250 : 257,250 35 Geological Survey 76.406 76,406 I 76,406 : 76,406 36 Industrial Development Corporation 123,000 123,000 I 50,000 50,000 173,000 173,000 37 Development of Industrial Sites 50.000 50.000 50,000 i 50,000 38 Nyeri Electricity Undertaking .. 95,600 95,600 95,600 95,600 39 Nairobi Airport, Embakasi 1,499,027 1,499,027 1,499,027 | 1,499,027 40 Improvements to Aerodromes .. 17.000 17.000 O17,000 t 17,000 41 Industrial and Scientific Research 8,874 8,874 8,874 : 8,874 42 Weights and Measures Department 9,400 7,600 9,400 7,600 Total 2,136,557 2,134,757 50,000 50,000 2,186,557 2,184,757 Minister for Works 43 Public Works Department 75,000 60,800 — j — ; 75,000 j 60,800 44 General Works Staff 1,790,850 — | 31,900 ! — 1,758,950 45 Roads 2,437,000 2,437,000 — — i 2,437,000 2,437,000 46 Supplies and Transport Department 400,000 348,300 71,000 58,900 71,000 | 71,000 400,000 336,200 Total 2,912,000 I 4,636,950 71,000 58,900 71,000 ! 102,900 2,912,000 1 4,592,950 J ---- ^ Taiile I.—Three-ano-a-Half-Year Development Plan, 1954-57—(Conul.) Proposed i Approved Allocation Supplementary Savings Revised Allocationi Allocation I No. ! Portfolio Gross Net Gross Net Gross Net Gross !! Net (1) (2) ' (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ -4 Minister for Community Development 47 Community Development Projects .. j 40,500 40,500 8,935 8,935 49,435 ; 49,435 - 48 Jeanes School, Kabete 75,000 60,800 75,000 I 60,800 49 E.A. School of Co-operation 2,000 2,000 2,000 i 2,000 50 Juvenile Remand Homes 19,500 15,700 19,500 | 15,700 Total .. 117,500 103,300 28,435 24,635 i i 145,935 I 127,935 GRAND TOTAL .. £ 23,688,350 123,688,350 I 591,510 ;__546,810 | 1,383,955 j 1,339,255 22,895,905 122,895,905 8 3. The revised plan is summarized below by ministerial portfolios: — Table 2.—Allocations under Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan by Ministerial Portfolios (Revision of Table 85 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) Allocation (Gross) 1954-57 Portfolio - Amount Per cent £ j Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Water Resources 4,353,273 190 Internal Security and Defence 4,060,990 17-7 Education, Labour and Lands ! 3,681,931 16-1 Local Government, Health and Housinu 3,440,379 15-1 Works 2,912,000 12-7 Commerce and Industry................................................... ' 2,186,557 9-6 Chief Secretary 1,484,444 6-5 African Affairs 323.689 1-4 Forest Development, Game and Fisheries 234,500 1*0 Community Development 145,935 0*6 Legal Affairs 72,207 0*3 Total .. .. j 22,895^905 100-0 4. The Minister for Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Water Resources has now received the largest allocation, a position he held under the ten-year plan, whilst the Minister for Local Government, Health and Housing has dropped from first to fourth. If the £0.75 million still allocated for the Nairobi City Council is excluded, thus reducing the plan value to £22,145,905, the Minister for Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Water Resources’ share rises to 19.7 per cent. If that proportion of ordinary development expenditure, namely £852,000* which is being charged to the £5.0 million grant from Her Majesty’s Government for the five-year plan for the intensified development of agriculture is included, then the proportion rises to 22.6 per cent. Under the ten-year plan, it should be noted, the Minister for Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Water Resources was responsible for 31.0 per cent of total expenditure.')* 5. Revised subsidiary tables are presented in Appendix A together with brief statements explaining the reasons for the amendments proposed. 6. This is a convenient point to note that the statement of total capital expenditure on Central Government account contained in Table 90 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955 must be amended as below. In addition, expenditure financed from the 1954 Local Loan and the E.A. War Bonds conversion ofler '! should properly be included.J •Table 59 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955. t Table 9 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955. t Paragraph 109 and footnote (*) on page 59 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955. — 9 Table 3—Total Government Capital Expenditure, 1954 57 (Revision of Table 90 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) Item Amount £ million Three-and-a-half-year Plan, 1954-57 .. ! 22-9 Five-year Plan to Intensify the Development of African Agriculture, 1954-58 (a)...................................... j 3-25 Mombasa Water Supply (Major Project) Loans made under Agriculture Ordinance 1 U (b) Central Housing Board........................ 20 (c) Road Authority.......................... 0-5 (d) Nairobi City Council 1 0 ( (b> Maintenance (Military, including Pool, Joint Colonial and Kenya) 0-176 Public Works Non-Recurrent 0-112 Total 4-122 (a) Public Works Department building element in 1955-56 Development Estimates (vide column (2) of Tabic 6). (b) Known demands which are, generally speaking, in the nature of commitments. 9. The total Public Works Department building element in the 1955-56 Development Estimates, therefore, is in excess of the amount which theoretically can be spent by £0.872 million.* That is to say, of the £2.976 million provided through Section 1 of the Development Estimates for spending by the Public Works Department only £2.104 million can be spent. It will be observed from Table 5 below that the proposed reductions amount to £0.750 million only. •That is £4.122 million minus £3.250 million. ! L Cl,_____ Table 5.—Proposed Reductions in 1955-56 Development Estimates Reductions in Column (2) Balances Available Building Voted Element Work to be No. Scheme Provision (P.W.D.) undertaken depart­ Cuts Total P.W.D. Total Notes mental^ Element (fl) (b) (c) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) £ £ £ £ £ £ £ 1 Staff Housing 224,581 224,581 70,000 32,675 102,675 121,906 191,906 2 Government Offices 8,069 8,069 4,069 4,069 4,000 4,000 5 GOJudicial Buildings 21,001 21,000 21,000 21,000 6 Administrative Sub-stations 185,971 162,551 19,812 19,812 142,739 162,551 (e) 10 Agriculture 439,060 88,224 31,724 31,724 56,500 56,500 (/) 10 Grain Storage 36.000 36.000 36.000 36.000 (g) 18 Police Buildings 765,022 675,682 30,660 101,301 131,961 543,721 574,381 (« 19 Prison Buildings 219,429 219,429 20,000 38,744 58,744 160,685 180,685 20 Military Buildings 334,800 194,800 9,800 9,800 185,000 185,000 22 Medical Services 407,420 307,420 77,625 77,625 229,795 229,795 24 European Education 230,915 213,915 6,284 49.000 55,284 158,631 164,915 (0 25 Asian Education 552,625 363,625 41.000 41,000 O') 322,625 322,625 26 African Education 461,305 193,986 65.000 ' 65,000 128,986 128,986 27 Arab Education 29,463 26,493 1,000 6,000 7,000 19,493 20,493 (*)■ 39 Nairobi Airport, Embakasi 550.000 20.000 20.000 20.000 43 Public Works Department 40.000 40.000 40.000 40.000 46 Supplies and Transport Department 190.001 150,000 90.000 90.000 60,000 60,000 48 Jeanes School, Kabete 30.000 30.000 30,000 30,000 Total .. 4,725,662 2,975,775 147,756 586,938 734,694 2,241,081 2,388,837 Note.—Column (5) = Column (3) + Column (4). Column (6) = Column (2) — Column (5). Column (7) =* Column (2) — Column (4). ! 12 Notes to Table 5.— (o) Excluding works, other than Colonial Development and Welfare (Block Allocation) Schemes, to be undertaken on an agency basis, but including furniture except in the case of Administrative Sub-stations, Police Buildings and the Education group. (b) In addition to that envisaged as a departmental rather than a Public Works Department responsibility when Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955 and hence the 1955-56 Development Estimates wcfe ,PrcParcd- The gross cost of the allocations concerned, with the exception of Prison Buildings, European Education and Arab Education, have been appropriately adjusted. {Vide Tables 47 (R), 53 (R) and 61 (R) of Appendix A.) (c) That is, the total of columns (3) and (6). 00 To cover commitments incurred in 1954-55 but not brought to account, additional provision of £20,882 will be required in 1955-56. (e) Provision voted through the annual Development Estimates was only £161,624. To cover Public Works Department expenditure (£142,739), building by District Councils (£19,812), furniture (£3,175), land compensation (£5,545), water supplies (£1T,750) and sundry expenses (£2,950) additional provision of £24,347 will be required. (/) Departmental building teams will undertake work to a value of £13,000 (vide column (3) of Table 54 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955). Or) Only token provision of £1 is shown against Vote D. 8-5, Item 1, for at the time the 1955-56 Development Estimates were prepared estimates of cost of the two stores to be built this year at Ol Kalou and Thomson’s Falls were not available. It is now estimated that the cost of these two stores will be in the region of £36,000 and additional provision will be sought by Supplementary Estimate to cover their cost. It is hoped that both stores will be completed by January, 1956. (/i)The difference of £89,340 between columns (1) and (2) is accounted for as follows: balance of £140,400 to be spent directly by the police (f.n. (a) to Table 61 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955), £49,340; allowance for furniture, £40,000. (i)The planning of the Medical Training School (New Scheme) must start immediately and, whilst it has not been included here, the Public Works Department can fit it into their programme in lieu of a particular agency project which it has been decided shall be postponed. O') The Muthaiga Primary School is to be built by a team from the Kabete Trade and Technical School, with some assistance from the Public Works Department. (k) Several small Arab village schools arc to be built by District Commissioners. :1 - 13 10. The Government does not consider it necessary to reduce the Develop­ ment Estimates further for two reasons: in the first place, it would be unwise to bring them exactly into line with available capacity at this stage in the year. Otherwise, the priorities borne in mind when the cuts were being worked out, namely— One—security buildings, Two—short-term economic projects, Three—long-term economic projects, Four—social service projects, would lead to inflexibility. Secondly, as implied in footnote (b) to Table 4, it is possible that the demands on Public Works Department capacity from sources other than the three-and-a-half-year plan will fall short of the present forecast. 11. Although the limits to be imposed on spending will, inevitably, lead to a carry-over from this planning period to the next of uncompleted schemes, generally no serious consequences are foreseen. So far as can be foreseen the Police training and recruitment programmes will not be adversely affected, although the continued use of dilapidated and unsuitable buildings for a longer period than anticipated is a danger to the efficiency of the Force. 12. As regards the education group, the cuts will be absorbed in such a way as to have the least possible effect on the number of new places it was planned to provide in the current year. Nevertheless— (a) in European education, expenditure this year on the new girls’ secondary school at Eldoret will have to be reduced, the completion of primary schools at Kericho and Nyeri will be delayed and the construction of the rural day primary school at Thika has been postponed;* (b) in Asian education, a number of small schemes and the construction of some staff housing will have to be postponed. This will aggravate the problem of recruiting European staff;! and (c) in African education, the opening of the new secondary schools planned for Fort Hall, Meru and Nyeri will be delayed, as will the expansion of teacher-training facilities at Kisumu and Kagumo; the policy of consolidating teacher-training centres into fewer and larger units will have to be put into effect more slowly; and the introduction of three-year teacher-training courses and of the Higher School Certificate course will have to be delayed for at least another year. * This will tend to increase the pressure on boarding accommodation at primary schools in Nyeri and Nairobi. t Cf. paragraph 219 (d) of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955. 1 14 CHAPTER IV—PROGRESS OF EXPENDITURE 13. The estimates of expenditure to 30th June, 1956, presented in Table 6, are based on the audited accounts for 1954 (first half), the closed accounts for 1954-55, which have yet to be certified by the Controller and Auditor-General, and the approved Development Estimates for 1955-56 amended, in the case of building voles, in accordance with the proposals outlined in Chapter 111. Some other votes have also been adjusted in the light of further information now avail­ able about likely spending. Theoretically, for the implementation of the plan to be up to date by 30th June, 1956, the balance of spending in 1956-57 should be no more than £6.6 million, that is, two-sevenths or 28.6 per cent of the plan value. At best, a balance of about £7.9 million is likely to remain;* in other words, the plan will be lagging by nearly six per cent. And overall assessment, however, does not take account of either different rates of progress as between the main allocations or the significance of balances which are substantially dillerent from the two-sevenths norm. ! * Vide f.n. (o) to Tabic 6 r ____ Table 6.—Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan—Estimated Expenditure 1st January, 1954 to 30th June, 1956 : Estimated Expendi­ Estimated Balance of Revised Audited Estimated ture, 1st Allocation at No. Portfolio (Net) Expendi­ Expendi­ Expendi­ January, 1st July, 1956 Notes Allocation ture ture ture 1954 to 1954Q0 1954—55 1955-56 30th June, Amount Per cent 1956 (0 (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) £ £ I £ £ £ £ Chief Secretary 1 : Staff Housing 814,900 186,099 I 276,181 191,906 654,186 160,714 19-7 2 Government Offices 369,470 85,728 129,369 24,882 239,979 129,491 350 3 | Parliament Buildings 54,674 22,574 31,114 53,688 986 1-8 (a) 4 Information Department 11,200 — 8,389 400 8,789 2,411 21-5 (« Total .. 1,250,244 294,401 445,053 217,188 956,642 293,602 23-4 Minister for Legal Affairs 5 i Judicial Buildings .. 58,507 5,910 1,908 21,000 28,818 29,689 50-7 Total .. 58,507 5,910 1,908 21,000 28,818 29,689 50-7 I. Minister !for African Affairs 6 Administrative Sub-stations 253,800 14,176 , 24,305 185,971 224,452 29,348 11-6 7 Buildings, N.F.P. 5,809 3,200 3,200 2,609 44-9 8 Nandi Hills Project 5,470 857 l 1,944 2,669 5,470 Nil 9 Fort Smith Swahilis 4,250 — 4,250 4,250 Nil Total .. 269,329 15,033 30,499 191,840 237,372 31,957 11-9 _ A Table 6. Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan—Estimated Expenditure 1st January, 1954 to 30th June, 1956—(Contd.) ! Estimated Expendi­Revised \ Audited Estimated Balance of No. Portfolio Estimated(Net) ture, 1st Expendi­ Expendi­ Allocation at Expendi­ Allocation January, ture ture 1st July, 1956 Notesture 1954 to 1954(4) 1954-55 1955-56 30th June, Amount Per cent 0) 1956(2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) £ £ £ £ £ £ Minister for Agriculture, Animal 10 Husbandry and Water Resources Agriculture 11 1,472,758 231,909Veterinary Services 493,002100,365 487,78623,622 42,609 1,212,69731,772 260,061 17-698,003 (c)12 I Water 1,029,400 115,810 283,082 416,368 2,362 2-4 (d)13 I African Land Development 971,900 367,473 815,260 214,140 20-8 (e) Os 14 I Loans for African Agriculture and Live- 382,473 468,564 1,218,510 —246,610 15-3 (/) I stock 15 I 68,750European Settlement 13,300350.000 25.000 38,300250,000 30,450 44*2 16 I Indian and Arab Settlement 100,00030,000 350,00033 Nil 17 I Loans made under Agriculture Ordinance 100.000 I 33 29,96775.000 99-975,000 25,000 25*0 (g) I Total .. 4,123,173 738,847 1,464,466 1,604,490 3,807,803 315,370 17-2 (/*) Minister for Internal Security and Defence 18 Police Buildings (including forts) 19 1,569,900 72,842 328,152Prison Buildings 663,721 20 842,900 38,568 1,064,715 69,877 505,185 32-2 Military Buildings ............................ 180,685993,600 116,887 289,13097,859 553,770262,000 65-7476,746 516,854 520 (/) Total .. 3,406,400 228,297 495,888 1,106,406 1,830,591 1,575,809 46-3 _ __^ Table 6.—Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan—Estimated Expenditure 1st January, 1954 to 30th June, 1956—(Contd.) Estimated Expendi­ Estimated Balance of Revised Audited Estimated ture, 1st No. Allocation at Portfolio (Net) Expendi­ Expendi­ Expendi­ January, 1st July, 1956 Notes Allocation ture ture ture 1954 to 1954® 1954-55 1955-56 30th June, Amount Per cent 1956 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) £ £ £ £ £ £ Minister for Local Government, Health and Housing 21 Local Government Loans Authority .. 2,025,000 250,000 475,000 40,050 22 765,050 1,259,950 62-2Medical Services 1,151,179 103,184 230,820 344,795 23 678,799 472,380 41-0African Housing 172,500 104,000 104,000 I 68,500 39*7 0) -4 Total .. 3,348,679 353,184 705,820 488,845 1,547,849 1,800,830 53*8 Minister for Education, Labour and Lands 24 European Education 727,200 64,315 105,490 181,915 351,720 375,480 51-6 25 Asian Education 1,020,200 35,248 189,519 511,625 736,392 283,808 27-8 26 African Education 1,233,300 85,656 301,362 396,305 783,323 449,977 36*5 27 Arab Education 45,900 7 2,814 23,463 26,284 19,616 42-7 28 Education: Special Schemes 225,531 36,083 46,708 115,906 198,697 26,834 11-9 29 Labour Department 5,200 3,791 3,791 1,409 27*1 30 Purchase of Land 43,000 41,239 1,761 (a)43,000 Nil (*) Total .. 3,300,331 221,309 690,923 1,230,975 2,143,207 1,157,124 35*1 —^ Table 6.—Three-and-a~Half-Year Plan—Estimated Expenditure 1st January, 1954 to 30th June, 1956—(Contd.) Estimated Expendi­ Estimated Balance of Revised Audited Estimated ture, 1st Allocation at No. Portfolio (Net) Expendi­ Expendi­ Expendi­ January, 1st July, 1956 Notes Allocation ture ture ture 1954 to 1954(±) 1954-55 1955-56 30th June, Amount Per cent 1956 0) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) £ £ £ £ £ £ Minister for Forest Development, Game and Fisheries 31 Forestry 156,100 18,495 48,883 51,075 118,453 37,647 24-1 32 National Parks and Tourism 67,500 15,000 37,355 10,000 to62,355 5,145 7-6 33 Fisheries 10,000 1,813 4,900 6,713 3,287 32-9 oo Total .. 233,600 33,495 88,051 65,975 187,521 46,079 19*7 Minister for Commerce and Industry 34 i Post Office Renewals Fund 257,250 36,750 73,500 73.500 183,750 73,500 28-6 35 I Geological Survey 76,406 2,830 11,321 25,205 39,356 37,050 48-5 36 I Industrial Development Corporation 173,000 98,000 75.000 173,000 37 Development of Industrial Sites .. 50.000 | 50.000 («)50,000 38 Nyeri Electricity Undertaking .. 95,600 i 10,400 33,500 42.500 86,400 9,200 9-6 39 Nairobi Airport, Embakasi 1,499,027 118,359 295,380 550,000 963,739 535,288 35-7 40 Improvements to Aerodromes .. 17.000 1,062 3,452 8,780 13,294 3,706 21*8 41 Industrial and Scientific Research 8,874 8,874 8,874 42 Weights and Measures Department 7,600 1,219 1,354 2,573 5,027 66-1 to Total ......................... 2,184,757 170,620 516,507 833,859 1,520,986 663,771 30-4 Table 6.—Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan—Estimated Expenditure 1st January, 1951 to 30th June, 1956—(Conic/.) ; ; : Estimated Expendi- \ Estimated Balance of Revised Audited Estimated ture, 1st No. ■1 Portfolio Allocation at (Net) Expendi- | Expendi­ Expendi- January, 1st July, 1956 Notes Allocation ture ture ture 1954 to--------------- ,------------- 1954(1) ! 1954-55 1955-56 30lh June, - Amount j Per cent l 1956 >(0 (2) (3) (4) (5) i (6) (7) £ £ £ £ I £ ! £ Minister for Works 43 Public Works Department 60,800 2,961 183 44 ! General Works Staff 3,144 : 57,656 94-81,758,950 147,494 I : 330,994 i 658,586 1,137,074 45 t Roads 621,876 I 35-4 j.. j 2,437,000 375,000 j 750,000 750,000 1,875,000 46 I Supplies and Transport Department 562,000 j 23*1 | i • • , 336,200 • — ii — ■ 60,000 60,000 276,200 I 82-2 ! o Total .. .. ; 4,592,950 525,455 | 1,081,177 j 1,468,586 j, 3,075,218 j 1,517,732 i 33-0 ' I 1 1 i ! Minister for Community Development j 1 : i .i 47 Community Development Projects 49,435 7,313 11,099 20,000 38,412 i 11,023 ; 48 Jeanes School, Kabete i 60,800 ! 22-3 (/i) — ! — ! 30,000 . 49 30,000 30,800E.A. School 50-7of Co-operation 2,000 — ' — 2,000 2,000 — 50 Juvenile Remand Homes 15,700 15,700 i : ) 100 0 ! l Total 127,935 7,313 11,099 | 52,000 70,412 57,523 45-0 . GRAND TOTAL .. 22,895,905 2,593,864 5,531,391 7,281,164 IjMQMlgJ 7,489,486 ! 34-4 ! (o) V V. * ■;1 ! 20 ! Notes to Table 6.— (fl) Balance unlikely to be required (reference paragraph 19 (a) (i)). (6) Not all of the balance likely to be required (reference paragraph 19 («> (i)). (c)Expenditure in 1955-56 estimated as follows: — Approved Estimates— £ £ Vote D.4 439.060 Vote D.8-5 28.000 467,060 Add: Grain Storage (provision to be sought by Supple­ ! mentary Estimate) .. ..................................... 36,000E.A.T.T.R.R.O. Buildings (provision to be sought by . Supplementary Estimate) ..................................... 16.450 Deduct'. Proposed Reductions in 1955-56 Development Esti­ i mates (Table 5) ......................... 31,724 20,726 £487,786 (d) Estimated expenditure in 1955-56 includes a proposed Supplementary Estimate for £15.000. viz.: Subsidiary Stock Routes. £6,000; Stock Breeding Centres (African Areas), £9,000. (e) Estimated expenditure in 1955-56 includes a Supplementary Estimate for £120,700. (/) The actual balance is £148,900. viz.:— £ £ Book Balance (yitle page 23 of the 1955-56 Development Estimates and Appendix C to this paper) -246,610 Add: Excesses on scheme values transferable to the Swynncrton Plan* on account of— ALDEV H.Q.................................................................... 11,877 ALDEV Schemes .. ......................... 285.187 ALDEV Expenditure by Agricultural Department 30,203 ALDEV Expenditure by Veterinary Department .. 128,293 455,560 Deduct: Loan Expenditure transferable from the Swynnerton ! Plan (vide f.n. x3 on page 23 of the 1955-56 Development Estimates) .. ................................................ 60,050 Thus: Actual Balance............................................................ 148,900 j. In other words, actual expenditure—as opposed to expenditure brought to account in the ; development accounts—is £823,000 and not £1,218,510, giving a balance of £148,900 as j opposed to —£246,610. (g) As the Agricultural Committees and Sub-Committees provided for in the Ordinance have not yet been appointed and as there is bound to be a time lag between loan sanctions j; and drawings, £75,000 is the maximum that will be spent in 1955-56.(h) The percentage is calculated on an actual balance of £710,880. (i) No expenditure will be incurred this year on the construction of barracks for the E.A. Reconnaissance Squadron and not all of the £100.000 voted for the Pool Fund will be paid over. O’) Estimated expenditure in 1955-56 includes a sum of £15,000 on the Medical Training School (New Scheme). (A:) Additional provision of £1,761 will have to be provided by the revotc of unspent 1954-55 provision. (/) Estimated expenditure in 1955-56 includes £6,000 for the Makutano works camp project and £25,000 for the construction of the Forest Training School; provision wall be sought by Supplementary Estimate. (m)T he supplementary allocation of £50,000 will probably be required this year and additional provision will, therefore, be required. (n) Thc International Co-operation Administration scheme will probably begin in January. 1956. Provision in the Approved Estimates falls short of the £20,000 likely to be required in connexion with Kenya’s matching contribution by £8.500. (o)T he percentage is calculated on an actual balance of £7,884,996. * Vide Appendix C. 21 14. It is not proposed to analyse expenditure against each allocation in ■ detail in this Paper, but it is of interest to summarize the information in Table 6 by grouping the various allocations according to whether estimated balances are t greater or less than the two-sevenths (28.6 per cent) norm. Table 7.—Three-and-a-Hale-Year Plan: Estimated Balances at 1st July, 1956 i More Less No. !1 Allocation . than than ; 2/7ths 2/7ths 50 Juvenile Remand Homes ........................... 1000 16 Indian and Arab Settlement........................... 99-9 43 I Public Works Department.......................... 94-8 46 i Supplies and Transport Department 82-2 42 Weights and Measures Department 66-1 19 Prison Buildings .. .. .. 65-7 21 Local Government Loans Authority 62-2 20 Military Buildings ...................................... i 520 24 European Education...................................... 51-6 5 Judicial Buildings .. .. 50*7 48 Jeanes School, Kabctc .......................... 50-7 35 Geological Survey ...................................... 48-5 7 Buildings, N.F.P. 44-9 14 Loans for African Agriculture and Livestock 44-2 27 Arab Education ...................................... 42-7 ! 22 Medical Services ...................................... 41 0 23 African Housing 39-7 26 African Education .. .......................... 36-5 39 Nairobi Airport, Embakasi.......................... 35-7 44 General Works Stafl*...................................... 35-4 2 Government Offices...................................... 35-0 33 Fisheries .................................................. 32-9 18 Police Buildings................................................. 32-2 34 Post Office Renewals Fund.......................... 28-6 25 Asian Education ...................................... 27-8 29 Labour Department 27-1 17 Loans made under Agriculture Ordinance ... 25-0 31 Forestry................................................................ 24*1 45 Roads............................................................. 23-1 47 Community Development Projects 22*3 40 Improvements to Aerodromes 21-8 4 Information Department .......................... 21*5 12 Water .. .. ...................................... 20-8 1 Staff Housing .. .. 19-7 10 Agriculture ...................................... 17-6 13 African Land Development 15*3 28 Education: Special Schemes 11*9 6 Administrative Sub-stations 11*6 38 Nyeri Electricity Undertaking.. 9-6 32 National Parks and Tourism 7-6 11 | Veterinary Services .......................... 2-4 3 Parliament Buildings 1*8 8 Nandi Hills Project.......................... Nil 9 Fort Smith Swahilis.......................... Nil 15 European Settlement.......................... Nil 30 Purchase of Land .......................... Nil 36 Industrial Development Corporation Nil 37 Development of Industrial Sites Nil 41 Industrial and Scientific Research Nil 49 E.A. School of Co-operation Nil r ; : : 22 , ! !'! 15. Three points should be noted: in the first place, in the case of— Juvenile Remand Homes, Public Works Department, i-1 Supplies and Transport Department, Jeanes School, Kabete, Weights and Measures Department, Arab Education, African Housing, Information Department, Parliament Buildings, Nandi Hills Project, Fort Smith Swahilis, i i European Settlement, Purchase of Land, Industrial Development Corporation, Development of Industrial Sites, i Industrial and Scientific Research, ! E.A. School of Co-operation, the incidence of expenditure rather than the annual rate of expenditure has ; determined the size of the balances. These allocations concern single, small or 1 fairly small, works projects or involve purely financial transactions. In the case of some other allocations (e.g. Government Ofiices) a balance in excess of two- sevenths merely means that certain projects have not yet been started. 16. Secondly, whilst the progress of expenditure on security buildings has been slow—at any rate, having regard to the priority accorded them in the plan*— the rate of advance in the economic sphere is most satisfactory. All the main projects under the control of the Minister for Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Water Resources, for example, are spending at a faster rate than originally intended. 17. Thirdly, the dillerent positions of the three main education groups are a reflection partly of the cuts made in the 1955-56 Development Estimates, partly of the greater proportion of grant-in-aid expenditure in African and' Asian ! education and partly of the expressed intention of the Government to accelerate the development of the Asian education system in this planning period in view of the disappointing progress during the eight years 1946*-53.t | * Paragraph 96 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955. There are special reasons for the large balance on military buildings and the police programme will not be very far behind by the end •of this year. The prisons programme, however, is proceeding at the moment rather slowly. f Cf. paragraphs 60 and 218 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955. ■■ i 5 ■ ! • 23 18. Finally, as regards— (a) the Local Government Loans Authority: the fact that 62.2 per cent of the allocation will remain to be drawn in 1956-57* does not mean that the allocation is too generous, but simply reflects the cash position of the Fund. In addition, the Nairobi City Council will not require the £0.75 million earmarked for them until late in 1956; (b) Embakasi Airport: in view of the size and economic significance of this project it should be noted, that the completion date remains unaltered as late 1957;t and (c) the General Works Staff: the average mark-up of 23 per cent used to calculate the allocation appears to have been about right.f * In view of the capital gap, of course, there can be no guarantee that it will all be available for drawing. t Cf. paragraph 252 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955. All black cotton soil has now been excavated from the terminal area, the apron and the runway and excavation of the taxiway is proceeding. The whole of the runway and overruns (10,800 feet) have been laid with a sub-base and the main cable culvert across the centre of the runway has been finished and the drainage work is in hand. The working drawings for the terminal building arc well advanced. t Vide paragraph 102 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955. Ti . 24 CHAPTER V—FINANCIAL POSITION ii 19. So far, the proposed amendments to the thrce-and-a-half-year plan have been described and expenditure to the end of 1955-56 has been estimated. The limit to spending in 1955-56 will be a physical one only but, having regard to the shortfall between the plan value and the Government’s forecast of available funds, a double limit—that is, a financial as well as a physical one—will operate in 1956-57. Accordingly, as soon as possible the Government will consider— («) the extent to which the capital gap will be covered, (i) by savings; and (ii) by limited spending capacity, which will depend upon the Public Works Department building element in the balance of the allocations;* (/>) the incidence of the deliberate cuts which will have to be made in the plan to cover the balance of the gap. 20. In Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955 the Government envisaged that the shortfall between planned expenditure and available funds would be £2,126,638. Despite the fact that—after allowing for the reduction, on both sides, of the £1.0 million tor the Nairobi City Council—the plan value has risen by £207,555, the shortfall of available funds is now recalculated at £1,647,115. Table 8. Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan: Financial Summary Item Original Revised £ £ Plan Value 23,688,350 22,895,905 Forecast of Available Funds 21,561,712 21,248,790 Shortfall 2,126,638 1,647,115 Shortfall as a percentage of Plan Value 9.0 7.2 21. The revised forecast of available funds is shown in Table 9 below. Table 9.—Forecast of Available Funds, 1954-57 {Revision of Table 43 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) Item Amount £ Balance in Development Fund as at 1st January, 1954 (a) .. 6,850,488 C.D. & W. Vote (Colony’s Block Allocation) 2,015,194 (a) Loan Programme 10,750,000 Loan from Uganda Government for Hill School, Eldoret 175.000 Balance of Local Loan (Ordinance No. 12 of 1954) 425.000 Special Contribution from Revenue (Export Duties) 98,513 Proceeds from Sale of Undistributed Balance of German Enemy Property 250,000 Dam Construction Units: Revenue....................................... 157,500 Contributions from: — Rahimtulla Trust Fund for King George VI Hospital 30,000 l; Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation for Nairobi Airport, Embakasi........................... 250.000 •:! Colony Revenue (Medical Training School) 145,395 (b) Emergency Expenditure Fund (Makutano Works Camp) 1,700 0c) Miscellaneous 100.000 (d) Total •21,248,790 * That is, in column (6) of Table 6. 25 Notes.— (a) Includes £440,264 of the £1.0 million granted to Kenya under the 1955 Colonial Development and Welfare Act for the five United Kingdom fiscal years 1955-60. For details of the schemes to which this sum (i.c. £2,015,194) is committed, vide Appendix B. (b) Table 65 (R), Appendix A. (c) Table 76 (R), Appendix A. (cl) Actual receipts to 30th June, 1955, amounted to £71,299 and, making due allowance for those of an essentially non-rccurrcnt nature, £100,000 for the whole planning period is a fair estimate. 22. As regards the loan programme, the Government wishes to stress that, having regard to the general position on the London market, no certainty exists that the full amount of £10,750,000 can be raised even allowing for the growing capacity of the local market. Furthermore, the short-term finance with which Kenya's £2.15 million share of the cost of the Mombasa Water Supply (Major Project) is being financed must shortly be replaced by long-term money. Neverthe­ less, the Government has no reason to believe that the continued buoyancy of the economy and the critical role to be played by the development plan in future expansion is not appreciated and, therefore, feels that the loan programme can be fulfilled. 23. If (a) the forecast of expenditure in 1955-56 shown in Table 6 is reduced by £235,000 and (b) the actual balance on the ALDEV allocation, namely, £148,900, is taken into account, the balance on the plan as a whole at 1st July, 1956, rises to £8,119,996. Table 10.—Tiiree-and-a-Half-Year Plan—Adjusted Forecast or Balance at 1st July, 1956 Item £ £ Estimated Expenditure to 30th June, 1956 («) 15,406,419 Deduct— Possible Over-estimate of Expenditure 235,000 Difference between ALDEV expenditure brought to account and actual expenditure chargeable to ALDEV allocation (/>) .. 395,510 630,510 Adjusted Estimate of Expenditure to 30th June, 1956 14,775,909 Adjusted Forecast of Balance at 1st July, 1956 8,119,996 Notes.— (a) Column (5) of Table 6. (b) Footnote (/) to Table 6. 24. It follows that if expenditure in 1955-56 is of the order of £7.0 million*, leaving a balance of £8.1 million, then with a capital gap of £1.6 million! expenditure of only £6.5 million can be financed in 1956-57. It is for this reason that the expenditure programme for 1956-57, referred to in paragraph 19 above, will have to be drawn up very carefully. •That is, £7,281,164 (Table 6) less £235,000 (Table 10). t Table 8. i - '1 ! 26 ; APPENDIX "A” : REVISION OF THREE-AND-A-HALF-YEAR PLAN i Tabic 1 of this Paper presents in summary form the amendments now considered necessary and replaces Table 45 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955. i The various subsidiary tables presented in Chapter VIII of that Paper are revised as shown below. j Allocation No. 1 Table 47 (R).—Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan: Staff Housing (Revision of Table 47 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) Gross Less 19 per cent Scheme cost for GWS Allocation £ £ £ European and Asian 340.000 64,600 275,400 African.......................... 630.000 90,500 539,500 Total 970,000 155,100 814,900 i Note.— Expenditure of the order of £155,000 will be incurred by District Commis­ sioners using local building teams* and the gross cost of the staff housing programme can be reduced, therefore, by £36,000|. The breakdown between European and Asian quarters, on the one hand, and African quarters, on the other, is not known and so for convenience the gross cost of the latter has been marked down by the full sum. Allocation No. 2 Table 48 (R).—Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan: Government Offices {Revision of Table 48 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) Gross Less 19 per cent Scheme cost for GWS Allocation £ £ £ Central Government Offices— (a) Completion of First, Second and Third Wings 139,287 26,400 112,887 (b) Fourth Wing 72,781 13,800 58,981 Treasury Building 127,839 24,200 103,639 j Construction of Roads, City . Square .......................... 30,144 30,144 District Headquarters. Wundanyi 23,819 4,400 19,419 Extension to Survey Field Head­ , .J quarters 49,300 9,300 40,000 Miscellaneous 5,400 1,000 4,400 , Total 448,570 79,100 369,470 * Actual expenditure to 30th June, 1955, was £55,370 and it is anticipated that a further ! £100,000 will be spent in this way in the two years ending 30th June, 1957. t That is, 23 per cent of £155,000, for this amount of building can be undertaken with negligible overheads. j. ! ; i V, 27 Note.— After allowing for a revote to cover commitments not charged to expenditure in 1954-55 a small saving of £2,900 exists on the allocation for the Central Government Offices (First, Second and Third Wings) and the District Headquarters Wundanyi. On the other hand, increases of £5,513, £3,062 and £5,144 in the allocations for the Central Government Offices (First, Second and Third Wings), the Treasury building and the Government’s contribution towards the cost of construction of Coronation Avenue in City Square, Nairobi*, are required. After making the various adjustments to both the allocations and the figures of gross cost a balance of £4,400 remains against the item Miscellaneous and it is proposed to use this for the construction of a new block of Government offices at Kilifi. Allocation No. 6 Table 53(R).—Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan: Administrative Sub-stations {Revision of Table 53 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) Gross Less 19 per cent Scheme cost for GWS Allocation £ £ £ Extensions to Eight Existing Sub-stations 40,000 7,300 32,700 Construction of 31 New Sub­ stations 266,800 45,700 221,100 Total 306,800 53,000 253,800 Note.— The gross cost of the sub-stations programme can be reduced by £5,900 for two reasons, viz.— (a) buildings to a value of £19,812| will be constructed by building teams organized by the Administration; (b) the sum of £5,5451 has to be paid to right-holders as compensation for land set apart under the terms of the Native Lands Trust Ordinance. In other words, in Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955 the overhead cost of the sub-stations programme was overstated to the extent of 23 per cent of £25,357. Recent investigations have shown that the estimates of cost on which the allocation was based were too low particularly in the Central Province. In some cases, the final schedule of requirements was not available and in others the probable cost of land compensation and water supplies was uncertain. Subse­ quently, building costs have risen, particularly in those areas of Central Province affected by the Emergency and it has been decided that a sub-station should be established at Busia in North Nyanza at a cost of £11,300 (approximately). To complete the network of 38 sub-stations shown in Tables 51 and 52 of Sessional ‘ Paper No. 51 of 1955 and build a sub-station at Busia, it is estimated that an additional sum of £100,000 (net) would be required. The Government has decided, therefore, that the construction of four of the thirty-one stations should be deferred until the next planning period and that three should be established on a skeletal basis only. Even so the present allocation will have to be supplemented by about £50,000 (net). However, in view of the fundamental importance of the policy of closer administration, the Government intends to find a sum of this order by cuts in other allocations. ♦The total cost will be £57,164 shared as follows: — £ Kenya Government .. .. .. ................................. 30,144 Nairobi City Council (which is responsible for the project) 27,020 ! £57,164 t These are minimum figures. I c Allocation No. 10 Table 54 (R).—Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan: Agriculture (Revision of Table 54 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) Building Element Non- Less 19 Gross Building Non- P.W.D. per cent P.W.D. Allocation Scheme Cost Element P.W.D. (Gross) for G.W.S. (Net) (a) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) Group I— £ £ £ £ £ £ £ Agricultural Training School, Embu 2,500 2,500 2,500 Egerton School ........................... 30,000 30,000 30,000 Group II— Soil Conservation (D.299 and A): African 182,700 150,000 6,900 25.800 4,900 j 20,900 177,800 to CO Non-African 383.500 346,300 8,400 28.800 5,500 23,300 378,000 Dam Construction Units: Capital 73,000 73,000 73,000 Recurrent 157.500 157,500 157,500 Group III— Farm Planning and Development 276,600 168,700 43,400 j 64,500 12,300 52,200 264,300 Group IV— Agricultural Research and Investigational Stations: I C.D. & W. Scheme D.1467 (b) 50,958 50,958 50,958 Extension 61,800 31,800 6,000 24,000 4,600 19.400 57.200 Coffee Research Station, Ruiru........................... 10,200 7,300 2,900 10.200 Horticultural Research Station, Molo 8,100 3,100 700 4,300 800 3,500 7,300 Plant Breeding Station, Njoro ........................... 30,800 4,500 7,500 18,800 3,600 15,200 27,200 Pasture Research, Phase II .. 66,900 24,900 24,200 17,800 3,400 14.400 63,500 Scott Agricultural Laboratories (Staff Housing) .. 26,500 1,900 24,600 4,700 19,900 21,800 Purchase of E.A.T.T.R.R.O. Buildings, Kabete___ 16,450 16,450 16,450 Allocation No. 10— (Could.) Building Element : Non- Less 19 i Gross Building Non- P.W.D. per cent P.W.D. Allocation Scheme I Cost Element P.W.D. (Gross) for G.W.S. (Net) (a) 0) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) £ £ £ £ £ £ £ Group V— i Grain Storage 225,000 75.000 150,000 28,500 121,500 196,500 Maize Control Buildings 28,000 28.000 28,000 Total (Gross) ..£ 1,630,508 1,170,008 101,900 358,600 68,300 290,300 1,562,208 \Nc> Less Allocation for Capital Equipment for Dam Con­ struction Units 73,000 73,000 73,000 Allocation for purchase of E.A.T.T.R.R.O. Buildings, Kabete 16,450 16,450 16,450 Total (Net) ..£ 1,541,058 1,080,558 101,900 358,600 68,300 290,300 1,472,758 Notes.— (а) That is, total of columns (2), (3) and (6). (б) Agency fees arc raised on works financed from the Colonial Development and Welfare Vote (Cf. paragraph 100 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955). : i 30 : Note.— i : The Governments of Uganda, Tanganyika and Kenya and the Central Legis­lative Assembly have agreed that the Headquarters of the East African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Research and Reclamation Organization should be moved, for technical reasons, from Kabete to Sukulu in Uganda, provided that no additional financial commitments, capital or recurrent, would be involved. The ' Organization owns a block of offices and laboratories, together with ancillary buildings (garage, stores and African quarters) in the Scott Laboratory reservation at Kabete. To help finance the construction of a similar group of buildings at ,i Sukulu this property must be sold. : ' The Government considers that this property should be purchased for three ;!: reasons, namely—, (a) in view of the Agricultural Department’s research programmes it would be most inadvisable to surrender the Government’s rights to the land; ! (b) laboratory and office accommodation is required for visiting scientists. ! Phase II of the pasture research programme provides for a Pasture i Research Officer based on Nairobi and the American technicians ii financed from the International Co-operation Administration grant for : the Swynnerton Plan will require accommodation whilst in Kenya; and, finally, (c)w hen his staff position improves the Director of Agriculture intends to post an Agricultural Officer to the Nairobi District and there is a possibility that the office of the Provincial Agricultural Officer, Southern i Province will have to be moved from Machakos to Nairobi. ! ; The first reason, namely, the expanding research activities of the Agricultural . Department is, of course, the main reason why these ready-made buildings should be purchased. The valuation price is £16,450 and whilst it is not possible to ear- 1 mark specific savings within the Ministry of Agriculture’s group of allocations of development funds at this stage, firm savings will be forthcoming later on in the planning period. Allocation No. 11 Table 56 (R).—Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan: Veterinary Services (Revision of Table 56 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) : }.! AllocationScheme C.D. & !W. Total Element | . £ £Manufacture of Biologicals, Kabete (D.1380) .. 10,505 10,505 Naivasha Stock Farm Research Station (D.1456) 24,587 24,587 Livestock Improvement and Veterinary Development 20,100 Stock Breeding Centres (African Areas) (D.868 and A) 11,498 20,498 Animal Health Stations (Non-African Areas) .. 4,000 Subsidiary Stock Routes .. .......................... 16,675 ! Tsetse Reclamation (Non-African Areas) 4,000 Total ............................... ..£ 46,590 100,365 •; i 31 Note.— It is now apparent that insullicient funds arc available to enable the Stock Breeding Centres (African Areas) and Subsidiary Slock Routes schemes to be completed. As regards the former, the original scheme value was £74,475* and this sum was intended to cover the capital costs of establishing centres at— Kisii, Kabianga, Mariakani, : Marimba. Ndomba, ! but owing to increases in building costs since 1949. when the scheme vs as inaugu­ rated. a supplementary allocation of £9.000 is required to complete works at— Kabianga. Marimba. Ndomba. As regards the Subsidiary Stock Routes scheme, of the three main routes. namely— Komo Rock/Ruiru, Sergoit, Kaptagat, only the latter has been completed and is in use. but to enable the first two to be completed a supplementary allocation of £7,675 is required. It should be noted that the removal of illegal squatter stock in the Uasin Gishu and the removal of surplus stock from the Segeyo Reserve depend on the completion of these routes. Allocation No. 12 Table 57 (R).—Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan: Water (Revision of Table 57 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) Less C.D. & W. 19 per cent Alloca­ Scheme G ross Cost Element for GWS tion £ £ £ £ Water Supplies for Townships 367,361 69.600 297.761 Rural Water Supplies— African areas 334.800 172.092 1.300 333.500 (a) Non-African areas 346,405 9,539 64.000 282.405 (M Mombasa Water Supply .. 111.239 21.000 90.239 General (c) .. 18,500 3.500 15,000 Reserve 12.895 2.400 10.495 Total 1,191,200 181.631 161.800 1,029,400 ( 19 per cent has been levied on £6,708 only for, apart from llic Colonial Development and Welfare element—on which agency fees arc raised—£156.000 will be disbursed by way of £-for-£ grants to African District Councils. (/>)That is. on the non-Colonial Development and Welfare element only. (c) Investigations, tools and plant. •Tables 14 and 25 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955. 32 Noll.— The possibility that the original allocation of £153,900 for township water i supplies would prove to be inadequate to enable essential supplies to be installed M and existing supplies inadequate for present requirements to be augmented was i n foreshadowed in paragraph 170 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955. The position was examined in detail when the 1955-56 Development Estimates were being prepared and since the total of scheme values of schemes already being, or about to be, implemented was in excess of the allocation of £153,900, the sum of £23,161 was transferred from the allocation for the Mombasa Water Supply.* This was possible because the Major Project will be elfective from early 1956. Nevertheless, the shortfall was still such as to make it necessary to eliminate from the draft Estimates sixteen new schemes which had been assigned a very high priority by the Water Resources Authority and also to delete Phase II of the Lamu Township Water Supply. Almost all the schemes eliminated are designed to augment existing supplies Provic*e adequate reserve storage and Government has concluded that in view of the significance of piped water supplies for economic and social development i the existing allocation of £177,061 (net) must be augmented by the sum of£120,700 to cover the cost of the following schemes, viz.: — Township Scheme Value £ ;! Kericho Augmentation 11.500 Kisii Augmentation j 2.500 Kakamega Increased Storage 1,800 Bungoma Augmentation, Phase II (Reticulation) 2.500 Lumbwa 10,000 Molo Augmentation 3.000 !■ Maralal 2.500 •I Naivasha Increased Storage 6.000 - : Meru Augmentation 5.000i Fort Hall Augmentation, Phase II 6.000 Machakos Augmentation 15.000 Ngong Augmentation 3,700 ' Kianibu Augmentation 8,000 Kilifi Augmentation 12.000 Voi 8,000 Malindi Augmentation 2.000 i 99,500 I.amu, Phase II (C ompletion) .. 21,200 i:- Total 120,700 * Vote D.6 (I) on page 21 of the 1955-56 Development Estimates. :■ =; 33 Allocation No. 18 Table 61 (R).—-Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan: Police Buildings (Revision of Table 61 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) Gross Less 19 Scheme Cost i per cent J Allocation for G.W.S. £ £ £ i Colony Headquarters, Nairobi 321.000 61,000 260,000 Police Training School, Nyeri 107.000 20.300 86,700 Police Stations and Offices— Central 112,500 Rift Valley 33,600 Nyanza 39,000 Southern 57,200 Coast 34,100 ; Northern Frontier 5,000 i! Total Police Stations and Offices. . 281,400 53.500 I 227,900 European and Asian Housing— Central 184,200 Rift Valley 138,400 ! Nyanza 82,000 ! Southern 93,500 Coast 82,300 ! Northern Frontier 45,000 ! Total European and Aslan Housing (b) 625,400 118.800 | 506,600 African Houses and Rondavels— Central 356,200 Rift Valley .. 65,700 ; Nyanza 27,900 Southern 31,300 * Coast 31,600 1 Northern Frontier 6,000 , Total African Houses and Rondavels '; • 518,700 64,000 1 454,700 (a) Stores, Workshops and Garages 23,400 : 4.400 19,000 Police Forts, N.F.P. 18,590 I 3,590 15,000 GRAND TOTAL .. £j 1,895,490 325,590 j 1,569,900 (a) That is. 19 per cent of £337,700 for the police will construct rondavels (average cost, £50 each), *‘AM frame structures (average cost, £110 each) and steel watch towers (average cost. £75 each) to a value of £181,000, themselves. (h) A number of those houses not attached to police stations will become available for allocation by District Housing Committees in due course. Note.— The figures in footnote (a) have been amended in view of the intention that the Police will spend not £140,400 directly but about £181,000. Expenditure of only £273,700 as opposed to £314,300 will involve Public Works Department overheads. Thus, the contribution towards the General Works staff can be reduced from £73,000 to £64,000. rrr 34 Allocation No. 19 Table 63 (R).—Three-and-a-Hali-Year Plan: Prison Buildings l ! (Revision of Table 63 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) ' Less 19 1 Scheme Gross : Cost i per cent Allocation for G.W.S. £ i £ i £ ! ! New Prisons and Staff Quarters— Mombasa .. .. .......................... 113.000 i 21,500 91,500 Nyeri 127.000 24.100 ! 102,900 Eldoret 74,000 ! 14.100 59,900 Marsabit 6,100 ; 1,100 5,000 i ICitui 7,500 j 1,400 6,100 1 Remand Prisons and Detention Camps—Nairobi 28.300 ! 5,300 23,000 I Mombasa 37,900 f 7,200 30,700 Prison Training Centre, Shikusa (extensions) .. 24,000 4,600 19,400 ! Prison, Corrective Training Centre and Training i Depot for Prison Officers, Kamiti Downs.. 497,000 94.400 402,600 Staff Quarters (additional for permanent prisons) 60,000 11.400 48,600 i Miscellaneous Projects 65.700 12,500 53,200 Kisumu Prison (3,860) Prison Camps at Administrative Sub- i; Centres (6.000)Purchase of Farm, Embakasi (6,800) Extensions and Improvements to Existing i Prisons (10,000) Grant to Discharged Prisoners* Aid Association .. .......................... ! (2,500) Uncommitted Balance (24,040) Total . .£! 1,040,500 197,600 i • 842.900 ; (a) i !; (a) Figures in brackets are not included in total. Note.— At the moment, of the three groups of juveniles only two. namely, convicted delinquents and neglected children, are at present provided for. Approved Schools take the former and various voluntary organizations the latter. Although remand 1 homes are provided for under section 17 of the Juveniles Ordinance of 1934, at the moment juveniles awaiting trial or a decision as to their fate can only be held in prisons with all the attendant difficulties that this involves. ; It is estimated that to provide a network of seventeen remand homes for boys and four for girls would cost about £63,400 (net) but the Government considers that, for the time being, the most urgent aspects of the problem can be handled by building a home in Nairobi (£12,600 for 40 boys) and a home in Mombasa (£3,100 for 10 boys). It is proposed, therefore, to reduce the net scheme value of the Nairobi remand prison by £15,700 and create a new allocation (No. 50) under the Minister for Community Development, who is responsible for remand and probation services. In due course. Legislative Council will be asked to vote provision through the Colony Estimates for the annual recurrent costs, which i '< are estimated at £3,458 for the Nairobi home and £726 for the Mombasa home. j iaL.-!.- 35 Allocation No. 21 Loc al Government Loans Authority Reference paragraphs 201- 204 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) As noted in paragraph 3, this allocation can be reduced by £1.0 million as against a similar reduction in the Government's own loan programme in view of the possibility that the Nairobi City Council will be permitted to go to the market for £3.0 million in 1955. As regards the allocation of £1.275,000 for the requirements for local authorities other than the Nairobi City Council, the Local Government Loans Authority has sought permission to issue loan sanctions in excess of known cash resources to the extent of £400,000 in view of the inevitable delays which occur between planning and expenditure. The Government proposes to authorize the Authority to do this on the clear understanding that there can be no guarantee that the present endowment plus this sum of £400,000 can be further augmented in the next planning period, it is possible that some additional cash will be required before 30th June, 1957, and, if so, the Government hopes to make short-term finance available, which will have to be converted into long-term finance early in the next planning period. Allocation No. 22 Table 65 (R).—Three-and-a-Half-'Year Plan: Medical Services (Revision of Table 65 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) I Less 19 I Scheme GrossCost ; per cent i Allocation 1 for G.W.S.! £ £ £ King George VI Group Hospital, Nairobi .. | 180.000 j 34,200 : 145,800 African, Asian and Arab Hospital, Mombasa j 1 (D.1905) .. .. ........................ 314,703 j 314,703 Improvements to Existing Hospitals 124.000 | 23,600 100,400 Leprosaria 27,700 5,300 22.400 Tuberculosis Institutes :' 15.300 2,900 12.400 Mathari Mental Hospital 31,900 6,100 25,800 Infectious Diseases Hospital, Nairobi (D.1S2I) 149,070 149,070 Infectious Diseases Hospital, Mombasa 14.300 i 2,700 11,600 Nairobi Dispensaries 65.000 j 8,600 56.400 Health Centres— (a) D.865 ................................................ 29,011 29,011 (b) Non-C.D. & W........................................ i 29.000 5,500 23,500 Medical Training School (New Scheme) (a) . i 152,150 i (b) j 152,150 Medical Training School (extensions) .. 2,500 ! 2,500 Hostels in Towns 5,000 i 900 ! 4.100 Medical Stores 10.000 1 1,900 8.100 £-for£ Grants 100,000 ! 100,000 Total (Gross)....................................... 1,249,634 91,700 1,157,934 Less shortfall on Transfer from Colony Revenue on a/c M.T.S. (New Scheme) 6,755 6,755 Total (Net) ...................................... 1,242,879 91,700 1,151,179 {a) Covered partly by the transfer of £145,395 from Colony revenue. Cf. Table 9 of this Paper. (b) Agency fees will be levied on this project in view of the special circumstances under which it is being financed. (For an explanation of the difference between agency fees and a ■ fiat rate contribution towards the cost of the General Works Staff, vide paragraphs 99-102 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955. s Tf 36 Note.— i! One of the projects to be financed by the United States international- Co-operation Administration concerns the development of the Medical Training School. Nairobi. The International Co-operation Administration grant of £145,395 will meet the recurrent costs of the School during the two years 1955-56 and 1956-57. and will provide three expert instructors (in Nursing Arts, Pharmacy and Laboratory Technique). Kenya’s matching contribution of £152,150 (gross) will be spent on developing the existing school to enable all medical and health : training to be concentrated there. At present only nursing staff receive their academic instruction at the School, whilst instruction in hygiene is given at the ; Jeanes School, in radiography at Kisumu and in laboratory techniques at the Medical Research Laboratory. Not only will the various branches of medical training be centred in one institution but the capacity of the present Medical Training School, namely, 250, will be doubled. i The International Co-operation Administration grant will relieve Colony ! revenue of the recurrent commitment of the School for two years and thus permit a transfer of £145,395 to the Development Fund. The difference between this sum and the total cost of the extensions, namely, £152,150. will have to be met by savings on other schemes in the Medical Department's three-and-a-half-year plan. •r Allocation No. 23 ; African Housing I (Reference paragraphs 209-JO of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955)1 I he approved allocation of £256,250 includes an allowance of £206,250 for 50 per cent grants for services and £50.000 for the purchase of land at Kisauni. The Government proposes that the allocation shall be amended in two ways, viz., fust, the Nairobi City Council has requested financial assistance towards a projected social welfare programme in the African locations. As the provision ot social amenities in a growing industrial city such as Nairobi is of primary i importance on both sociological and security grounds and as the resources avail­ able to the City Council are insufficient to meet the cost of these amenities in full, ;| the Government proposes to make £-for-£ capital grants of up to £37,000 for specific projects. Fortunately, the sum of £78,750 earmarked for 50 per cent grants lor services for African Housing Estates in Nairobi is not now required i for in the recently negotiated scheme lor 5,000 houses financed jointly by the Central Housing Board and the City Council there is no subsidy element. A saving, of £41,750 therefore emerges. Whilst the Government has decided to contribute towards the cost of the t 1 City Council’s social welfare programme, it must be emphasized that the decision to assist in what is essentially a local government responsibility stems solely from the special position of Nairobi and the peculiar problems relating to its develop­ ’(• ment at the present time. Secondly, rather than proceed with the purchase of land at Kisauni for ■ resettlement purposes, it is proposed to repool, redistribute and sub-divide into : quarter-acre plots some 700 acres of Section VI, Mombasa Mainland (North). The aim is to create a high density area by providing at a comparatively small cost accommodation for some 17,000 persons in low income groups, with security of tenure. The Mombasa Municipal Board has passed a resolution in accordance with Section V of the Town Planning Ordinance declaring itself a Preparatory Authority in respect of the area and the Government proposes to make a loan of £8.000 to the Board to cover expenditure during the first two years of the scheme. It is proposed to make available the balance of the total cost, at the moment estimated to be in the region of £50,000, in the next planning period. The terms and conditions under which this loan of £8.000 is to be made available wilt 111 be decided by the Treasury in due course. 'I i !: 1 37 Allocution No. 26 Table 72 (R).—Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan: African Education (Revision of Table 72 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) ;! Less 19 AllocationScheme Gross per cent ----- Cost forG.W.S. Amount ! Percent (a) £ £ £ £ Primary and Intermediate—• Block Grants to D.E.Bs. (b) 49,360 — 49,360 Girls' Boarding Schools 189,616 4,600 185,016 Schools in Townships .. 206,714 2,300 204,414 Total Primary and Inter­ mediate i 445,690 6,900 438.790 36 Secondary— Fort Hall (Boys) 1,000 1,000 Nyeri (Boys) 90.000 | 17,100 j 72,900 Meru (Boys) 19,100 I 3,600 15,500 North Nyanza (Boys) 50.000 ! 50,000 1 Completion of Existing Schools (including Girls* Schools) 188,970 I 7,200 181,770 Total Secondary 349,070 1 27,900 321,170 26 Teacher Training— Kisumu (Women) (c) .. 36,500 1 36,500 Thika (Men) .. .. 50,000 j 50,000 Women’s T.T. College, Machakos (D. 1928) (d)............................. 135,000 i 17,100 117,900 Si riba (Men) ............................. 35,740 ! 2,300 33,440 T.4 T.T. Centres (D. 1647) 18,721 ! 18,721 Women’s T.4 T.T. Centres | (D. 1697) ............................. 24,937 24,937 Completion of Existing Centres .. 114,742 6,400 108,342 i Total Teacher Training .. 415,640 25,800 389,840 32 Rural Training Schools (c) .. 25.000 25,000 Permanent Equipment 31,500 31.500 Improvements to Existing Schools. 20.000 500 19.500 I Housing and Offices 8,500 1,000 7,500GRAND TOTAL .. ..£ ■1,295,400 62,100 1,233,300 Notes.— (а) Comparable figures for the period 1946-55 arc: primary and intermediate, 31 per cent; secondary, 19 per cent; teacher training, 35 per cent. (б) £80 grants to primary schools for initial equipment and £400 grants to intermediate schools for workshop-domestic science rooms. (c) Total cost will be £40,000; a contribution of £3,500 will be forthcoming from funds available for the Swynncrton Plan, for an Agricultural Officer has been allocated a house attached to the Teacher Training College, Vihiga. This establishment will shortly be converted into an administrative sub-station. (Vide note (a) to Table 52 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955.) (d) A sum of £45,000 will be reimbursed from the Colonial Development and Welfare : Vote (Kenya’s Block Allocation). (Vide Appendix B to this Paper.) (e) Pilot schemes at Mawego and Machakos for providing further training for pupils not litted for academic intermediate instruction. A four-year course will be offered, the emphasis ■ ■: being on carpentry, building and agriculture. 38 No i e.— The structure of the programme described in Table 72 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955 requires amendment, viz.: — Original Revised Allocation Allocation £ £ i: Primary and Intermediate .. 475.500 438,790 Secondary 322.500 321,170 ‘ . Teacher Training 356,800 389,840 Rural Training Schools 25.000 25,000 :: Permanent Equipment 34.000 31.500 S Improvements to Existing Schools . 19.500 19.500; Housing and Offices 7.500 : Total £1,233,300 £1,233,300 ' The need to amend the original allocation of £475,500 for primary and intermediate schools arises in two ways. First, the building programme for the present period was planned on the costs current at the end of 1953. The balanced development of African education involves a large number of comparatively small r schemes rather than a few large ones and there are, therefore, at any one time a great number of physically committed projects. The rise in building costs which has taken place since the beginning of 1954 now makes it necessary to amend the programme in order to meet the commitments in which building has already begun. Secondly, the increased demand for girls’ education, and for additional facilities for primary and intermediate education in urban areas, necessitate increased allocations for Girls’ Boarding Schools and Schools in Townships. To offset these increases it is proposed to divert towards the cost of the fore­ going projects the unspent balance as at 1st July, 1955 (£160,640) of the allocation for block grants to District Education Boards, which was intended to provide : equipment and building grants to primary and intermediate day schools f respectively. The proposal to delete the item is made very reluctantly, as it will mean a delay in raising the standard of equipment in these schools; but it is the 1; only means of curtailing expenditure which will not reduce the number of places available. As regards secondary schools, it must be noted that at the beginning of the present planning period there were sixteen secondary schools, four of which had i double classes up to School Certificate level, the remaining twelve not having reached this stage of development. The number of classes in secondary schools at 1 1 the beginning of 1954 was 80 and it is intended that by 1957 the number will be 117. Thus accommodation for 37 additional classes (and the corresponding staff ! I • quarters) will be needed. At four of the schools to which classes are to be added there is a total of eight teacher training classes, and the intention is to remove these training classes and use the accommodation thus released for secondary ; classes.* The number of new secondary classes for which accommodation has to be built, therefore, is 29. The cost of classroom, dormitory and staff housing was estimated at £2,500 per class and £72,400 was allowed. This has proved to be a considerable underestimate, apart from the increase in building costs which has taken place since the beginning of 1954. Moreover, insufficient provision was made for the additional expenditure on laboratories and for the higher grade housing now required lor African teaching staff. Finally, unavoidable delay in building the proposed new Women’s Teacher Training College has meant that the additional accommodation planned for the African Girls’ High School, Kikuyu, has to be provided at an earlier date than originally contemplated, in order to allow the teacher training c?asses which will be moved to the training college to remain at the schoo’ until the training college is ready. * Cf. paragraph 223 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955. 1 39 In order lo carry out the planned programme, an increase of £109,370 in the allocation for Completion of Existing Schools is required to bring it up to £181.770. viz.:— £ Expenditure to 30th June, 1955 ................................................... 49.961 Stall' housing 65.000 Tuition (classrooms, laboratories) 35.809 Boarding (dormitories, kitchen, dining halls, sanitation) 31.000 £181.770 To cover this increase the Government proposes— (") 1° postpone the resumption of work on the Fort Hall Secondary School which had to be discontinued because of Emergency conditions: (b) lo reduce the allocation in the present planning period for the North Nyanza Secondary School from £80.000 to £50.000. The building of this school was scheduled to begin in 1954, but owing to siting difficulties building has not yet started. It is estimated that £50,000 will be sufficient for the building which can be carried out before June, 1957: (c) to reduce the allocation for the Meru Secondary School from £40,500 to £15.500. and accommodate the first classes in temporary accommodation at the existing practising school of the Meru Teacher Training Centre. As regards teacher training, the allocation for completion of existing centres was also underestimated, and an additional sum of £32,000 is required. An additional sum of £1,040 is also required for the Siriba Centre in order to complete the development planned for this period. I Finally, a sum of £7,500 is required for two houses and two offices for District Education Officers. Both this and the additional requirements for teacher training are to be met from the overall reductions in the original allocations for primary and intermediate and secondary schools. It will be noted that the net effect of all these adjustments is to reduce the gross cost of the programme by £15,100 for the Public Works Department element in the revised programme is less. I Allocation No. 27 Table 74 (R)—Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan: Arab Education (Revision of Table 74 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) Less 19 Scheme Gross per cent Allocation Cost for G.W.S. £ £ £ Girls' Primary School, Mombasa 6,600 1,200 5,400 Boys' Primary School, Mombasa 23,400 ; 4,400 19.000 Village Schools...................................... 21,600 ! 4,100 17,500 Permanent Equipment and Furniture .. 4,000 4.000 Total .. £ 55,600 9,700 j 45,900 ! 40 i Note.— Since Table 74 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955 was drawn up (a) the Sir Ali Bin Salim School, Malindi, has been condemned by the Public Works Department as unsafe for further use and (b) increasing demands tor accom­ i modation necessitate further extensions to the school buildings at Faza, Lamu ; and Takaungu. The allocation for Village Schools has to be supplemented, there­ fore, by £9,500 and savings of this amount are to be effected on the scheme value for the Boys' Primary School by reducing the number of new classrooms to be built from fourteen to ten and by retaining certain banda-type classrooms for the time being. Allocation No. 28 1 Table 75 (R).—Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan: Education, Special Schemes (Revision of Table 75 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) . ■ Allocation : Scheme C. D. & W. j . Element Total (a) 1 i. £ £ Hostel for European Women Students, Nairobi (D.1906) .................................................. 40,505 40,505 : * Royal Technical College 48,000 ! 86,000Hospital Hill School, Nairobi (D.1842).. 2,026 2,026 .)! Grants-in-Aid, Schools for Children of Mixed Parentage 20,000 Agricultural School, Makerere College .. . 73,000Medical School, Makerere College J. 4,000 Total ..£ 90,531 225,531 [ (a) Appendix B. - Note.— It is now apparent that the demands on accommodation at the Central School, Nairobi, for children of mixed parentage during the present ; planning period will not, after all, necessitate the construction of a new school and the Government proposes to widen the ambit of the allocation to enable grants-in- aid to be paid over to the managers of schools outside Nairobi who provide ’ educational facilities for such children. Allocation No. 30 ! Purchase of Land (Reference paragraph 231 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) i It is now anticipated that the cost of acquisition of the plots on the perimeter of the site on which the Royal Naval Armament Depot stands will not exceed £8.000. A saving of £8.000 will, therefore, emerge on the allocation of £16,000. , y i > 41 Allocation No. 31 Table 76 (R).—Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan: Forestry (Revision of Table 76 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) t Less 19 j Scheme I Gross per cent j Allocation 1 Cost ; for G.W.S. £ £ £ General— Personal Emoluments 1,633 I 1,633 Buildings and Water Supplies 53,100 : 900 52,200 Roads 11,000 11,000 Motor Vehicles and Equipment I 35,000 I 35,000Miscellaneous and Reserve 9,767 9,767 Eldoret Forest Reserve— Employment of 500 detainees from Maku- I tano Works Camp for 20 months (in­ I cluding cost of technical and supervisory ! ! staff)...................................... 15,000 ! 15,000(a) ' Forest Training School—Buildings and Water Supply Equipment and Vehicles : 21,380 j 21,380 3,620 • 3.620 Recurrent Costs (for one year) 6.500 6,500 Total ..£! 157,000 900 156,100 (a) The sum of £1,700, representing the additional cost of using detainee labour rather than Forest Department employees, will be reimbursed from the Emergency Expenditure Fund. i (Cf. Table 8.) Note.— The original allocation of £160,500 for forestry included a sum of £50,000 for the afforestation of 1,500 acres of grassland and the reafforestation of 2,500 acres of cleared forest land within a five-mile radius of Makutano Works Camp in the Eldoret forest reserve. The project was to provide 1.500 detainees with employ­ ment for seven months. The project has, however, been reassessed as it is economically unsound to afforest 4,000 acres in a single district in one planting season.* In addition, further research is necessary into correct techniques for grassland planting before a large-scale scheme is embarked upon. It is proposed, therefore, to implement a modified scheme for the reafforestation of 1.000 acres of clear-felled forest on which 500 detainees will be employed for twenty months. The total cost, inclusive of labour costs and roads, will be £15,000 of which £1,700, representing the additional cost of using detainees as opposed to Forest Department employees, will be reimbursed from the Emergency Expenditure Fund. Of the balance of £35,000 against the allocation for the original Makutano project the Government proposes that £31.500 should be devoted to the establish­ ment of a Forest Training School at Londiani for the teaching of the elementary principles of forest practice to African Rangers. The Colony possesses over 120,000 acres of standing plantations and the development and ultimate out-turn of these depends on correct maintenance. Ideally, there should be one fully-trained forest ranger per 1,000 acres of plantation, but at the moment only 26 of the 82 Rangers employed by the Forest Department are trained. The capital cost of establishing the school is estimated at £25,000 and the recurrent costs for one year (1956-57) at £6,500. * The ideal to be aimed at in any planting area is a regular series of age gradations each approximately equal in size, so as to ensure an even and sustained yield in perpetuity. s I l 42 . Allocation No. 36 Industrial Development Corporation (Reference paragraphs 243-4 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) In paragraph 244 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955 the Government warned the Legislative Council that the allocation of £25,000 for working capital might prove to be insufficient. Since their appointment the Board of the recently established Industrial Development Corporation* have considered what sum they require to enable them to perform their statutory functions without having : to approach the Government every time they are considering a major investment. Although the Government does not consider the supplementary allocation ol £50.000 now proposed adequate it is all that can be made available at the present time having regard to the size of the capital gap on the three-and-a-half-year plan I! as a whole. Allocation No. 44 Table 82 (R).—Contributions Towards the Cost of the General Works Staff i; (Revision of Table 82 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) i: No. Scheme Contribution i ■ i £ 1. Staff Housing 155,100 2. Government Offices 79,100 H: 5. Judicial Buildings 13,7006. Administrative Sub-stations 53.000 7. Buildings, N.F.P..................................... 1,360 I * 10. Agriculture 68,300 12. Water 161,800 18. Police Buildings 325,590 19. Prison Buildings 197,600 ! j”. 20. Military Buildings 131,400 22. Medical Services 91,700 24. European Education 152.800 i 25. Asian Education 155.800 26. African Education 62,100 i 27. Arab Education 9,700 29. Labour Department 1.200 :{ 31. Forestry 900 42. Weights and Measures Department .. 1.800 ■! 43. Public Works Department 14.200 ■ 46. Supplies and Transport Department 63,800 i 48. Jeanes School, Kabete 14.200 | 50. Juvenile Remand Homes 3,800 Total .. £1.758,950 , j Note.— This revised table merely reflects the various adjustments already made. It | will be observed that the reductions in the gross cost of some of the works allocations have reduced the cost of the General Works Staff by £31,900. * Ordinance No. 63 of 1954, brought into force on 15th February, 1955. I 43 Allocation No. 46 Table 84 (A).—Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan: Supplies and Transport Department (Reference paragraphs 277-8 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) Original Revised Scheme Scheme Value Value £ £ Buildings 220,300 277,200 Equipment 57.000 59,000 Stores 71.000 Contribution towards G.W.S. 51,700 63,800 Total £400,000 £400,000 Note.— For two reasons the Government has decided not to finance part of the cost of the initial stores holding from the Development Fund: in the first place, a revised estimate of cost of the buildings based on a detailed schedule of requirements has now been prepared and the scheme value must be marked up from £220,300 to £268.000. viz.: — £ H.Q. Building 23,800 Stores 84,300 M.T. Workshop .. 93.000 Gate Office 1.500 Security Wall and Fence 6.500 Water Supply 2,000 Drainage 6,000 Railway Siding 2,000 Roads 12.500 Armourer's Shop 6,000 Magazine 20.000 Contingencies 10,400 Total .. £268,000 Secondly, on reconsideration the Government has decided that the use of loan finance for the purchase of stores is unwise. Accordingly, the scheme value of the buildings has been increased to £277,200 —leaving at the moment an uncommitted balance of £9,200—making the project’s contribution towards the cost of the General Works Staff £63,800. The balance of £2,000 is required to increase the original allocation for equipment to £59,000, viz.:— £ Storehouse Equipment .. 39.000 Workshop Equipment 20.000 Total .. £59,000 TV i 44 ;■ Allocation No. 47 .i Community Development Projects ! (Reference paragraph 279 of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955) i The United States International Co-operation Administration has ottered a grant of about £71,000 to enable the present programme of community develop­ ment to be accelerated. The grant will cover— (a) the personal emoluments, duty travelling expenses and cost of materials used by 21 Community Development Officers on two-year contracts; (b) the personal emoluments and travelling expenses within the United States of an American expert. The Kenya Government has to provide, as a matching contribution, money. for— i (c) the personal emoluments and travelling expenses of subordinate staff; ( i 54(R) 54,909 A I Manufacture of Biologicals, Kabete j DT380 Veterinary 56(R) 10,505 i Services Naivasha Stock Farm Research Station .. ! D.1456 »» 56(R) 24,587 Stock Breeding Centres .. ' D.868 & >» 56(R) 11,498 A Water Supplies D.300, Water i 57(R) 18,032 etc. Water Supplies in Rural Districts .. D.877 57(R) 162,222 Improvements and Investigations of Water Supplies in African Areas D.1365 57(R)j 1,377yy Reconditioning of Land in African I Areas ” D.935 ALDEV 58(a)! 109,133 African, Asian and Arab Hospital, Mombasa D.1905 Medical 65(R) 314,703 Services Infectious Diseases Hospital, Nairobi j D.1821 yy 65(R) 149,070 Health Centres .. . . .. ! D.865 I yy 65(R) 29,011 Expansion of African Teacher i Training Centres (24xT4 Centres) i D.1647 I African 72(R) 18,721 Education Expansion of African Teacher | i Training Centres (6xT4 Centres) 1 D.1697 yy 72( R) 24,937 Establishment of Teacher Training Centre for African Women .. i D.1928 yy i 72(R) 45,000 Erection of Schools and Teacher j Training Institutions for African Education .. j D.2508 yy 72(R)j 200,000 Hostel for European Women Students j in Nairobi .. | D.1906 Education: 75(R)i 40,505 Special Schemes Hospital Hill School, Nairobi D. 1842 j ; 75(R) 2,026 Royal Technical College .. j D.1590A ; I 75(R) 48,000 Nairobi Airport, Embakasi D.2510 i Nairobi Air- j para, j 450,000 port, Embakasi 1252 (a) Improvement of Interterritorial j ; Roads .. D.2509 Roads : 83 (a) 250,000 Total 2,015,194 («) Of Sessional Paper No. 51 of 1955. ■*? ; 46 APPENDIX “C” SESSIONAL PAPER No. 51 OF 1955—CORRIGENDA (1) Table 45, page 63, item 23: African Housing: it For “13,495" read 13,495”. (2) Page 83, footnote i\ paragraph 176: — : The figures in the table should be reduced by amounts equal to expenditure actually incurred from 1st January, 1954, to 31 si March, 1954. For the present 8 purpose an estimate of expenditure at half of actual expenditure lor 1954 (first half) has been used. The figures in the footnote should, therefore, read as follows: — ;! £ ALDEV Schemes 506,647 ALDEV Expenditure by Veterinary Department .. 100.676 . i ALDEV Expenditure by Agriculture Department .. 104,141 711,464 ! ! i That is, the switch of loan expenditure originally provided for in the Swynnerlon Plan to the three-and-a-half-year development plan, and vice versa i as regards the non-loan expenditure to be incurred directly by ALDEV and on l.'i behalf of ALDEV by the Agricultural and Veterinary Departments, involves not the whole of ALDEV’s allocation of £862,767 for loans and schemes but only i that which has been and will be spent since the Swynnerton Plan began on 1st April, 1954. ’ ! :N (3) Table 73: African Education System. Kenya, 1957: —! For “2,400” against the item, Secondary (including two Girls' Boarding Schools), read “3,400”. (4) Table 78: Three-and-a-Half-Year Plan : Geological Survey— The Colonial Development and Welfare element was incorrectly stated and T T the table should read as follows: — C.D. & W. Kenya Total Year Vote Funds Expenditure ! i £ £ £ u 1954 18,838 9,644 28,482 1955 9,232 18,462 27,694 1956 33,139 •r 33,139i 1957 (first half) 15,161 15,161 i I Total £28,070 £76,406 £104,476 1, ’ G.P.K. 2186—1,250— 10/55 j L.