HOUSE OF COMMONS

Evening Star, Issue 19797, 22 February 1928, Page 8

HOUSE OF COMMONS

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LA HU I! M OTI ON DE HEATED. LONDON, February 20. In the House of Commons, replying to a. question, Mr L., S. Amcry (Dominions Secretary) said that from April 1 next Mr Nicholis’s salary as Foreign Office liaison officer for New Zealand would be included in the Dominions’ Office vote. No doubt he would correspond informally with the B’oroigu Office. Mr Nicholls was being lent to Mr Coates, but was not to be representative of any department.

Mr Aniery told a questioner that the inclusion of Irish Free State ex-service men within the scope of the Overseas Settlement Act was still being discussed with the dominions. Fie bad not succeeded hitherto in reaching a satisfactory decision on the blast African vote.

Mr G. M. Gillett. (Labor) moved a motion that, the East African territories should he unit I in some scheme of federation.

Commander Kenwortliy (Labor), supporting the motion, asked if the broadest hint was not given by Sir Austen Chamberlain regarding Tanganyika before the Locarno Pact was ratified that Germany’s mandate for certain colonies would lie favorably considered. These colonics were taken from Germany, not as spoils of war, because wo had been told, nd nauseam, that wo were not fighting for territory, but because Germany allegedly was not fitted to have colonies.

Mr W. G. Ormsby-Gorc (Colonial Under-Secretary) hoped the Labor Party would not encourage the idea that they wanted, when they came into power, to hand these territories to Germany. It would not be easy to do so, because it did not rest with the

British Government who should exercise the mandate. The amendment was rejected by 200 to 84,

Mr Walter Guinness (Minister of Agriculture) announced that a quarantine station is being erected at East India Dock tor pedigree stock bound lor the dominions, and would bo ready for the reception of animals in April. It would be under the management of the Royal Agricultural Society at the charge of the Empire Marketing Fund. This would enable the export of pedigree animals to proceed without the interruptions' hitherto due to foot-and-mouth disease. It was hoped to erect ii similar station at Glasgow under the Royal Highland Agricultural Society. —A. and N.Z. and ‘Sun’ Cable.