§ COMMANDER BETHELL (York, E.R. Holderness)asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether, upon further consideration, and having in view the great importance to people in this country of an authentic and easily ac- 349 cessible source of information as to the state and progress of the various Colonies, he would have any objection to requesting the Governors of the self-governing as well as other Colonies to furnish an Annual Report of the countries over which they respectively rule?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir HENRY HOLLAND) (Hampstead)In the self-governing Colonies the Ministers are responsible for the preparation of the Annual Reports on those Colonies, and it would not be desirable to require the Governors of those Colonies to furnish their own Report in addition. The Colonial Government Reports are very full and able; and although they are too voluminous to reprint here as Parliamentary Papers, a form in which they would not be very accessible to the general public, I will endeavour to make arrangements for placing them as soon as they are received in the Libraries of the Houses of Parliament.