§ CAPTAIN DONELAN (Cork, E.)On behalf of the honourable Member for North Kilkenny, I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will consider the advisability of extending the scope of the commission of Sir D. P. Chalmers to enable him to conduct an inquiry into the grievances of the native population in the Lagos and Gold Coast Settlements against the levying of the hut tax, and the cruel measures adopted for its collection?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIESThere is no hut tax in either of those colonies. There is a municipal house rate in the town of Accra, but no cruel measures have been adopted for its collection.