Catalogue description The Stamp Mission: Transfer of Land in Kenya
Reference: | OD 2 |
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Title: | The Stamp Mission: Transfer of Land in Kenya |
Description: |
This series contains records concerning the transfer of land to Kenya. |
Date: | 1964-1965 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Physical description: | 13 files and volumes |
Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
Administrative / biographical background: |
The Stamp Mission, under the chairmanship of the Hon. A Maxwell Stamp and consisting of G J Caren, Dr A M M McFarquhar, R J M Swynnerton CMG OBE MC and joint secretaries F N Brockett and T Duffy, was appointed by the then Minister for Overseas Development, the Rt. Hon. Barbara Castle MP in January 1965 to advise on proposals for a further transfer of European farms in Kenya. Terms of guidance of the mission were:
The Kenya Government's proposals of April and December 1964 were superseded by proposals of January and February 1965 and final proposals were handed to the Mission on 22 March 1965, three weeks after its return from Kenya. An interim report was handed to the Minister for Overseas Development in May 1965 and following consideration of this report, the Kenya Government submitted another set of proposals on 28 July. In June the minister amplified the terms of guidance thus: It would be helpful if them final report would indicate the administrative framework which the mission consider the Kenya Government will require, if the mission's recommendations are to be properly implemented, particularly in terms of expatriate staff. We hope these recommendations will, so far as possible in the circumstances, cover land consolidation and other forms of agricultural development apart from the settlement of Africans on European mixed farming land and that the staffing requirements will be formulated to take account of these. The final report of the mission was submitted in October 1965; it was not published. |
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