§ SIR W. WEDDERBURNI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he will furnish a Return showing the number of Press Committees which have been established in India; the names of the places where they have been established: and the number of warnings which they have respectively issued, together with the names of the persons warned and (he nature of the warning in each case?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIAI can give the honourable Member in my answer the information he seeks. The Government of Bombay informs me that these committees have been established in 12 places—namely, Poona, Ahmedabad, Broach, Kaira, Thana, Ahmednagar, Satara, Nasik, Belgaum, Dharwar, Bijapur,' Ratnagari. These committees have no power to issue warnings, their functions being to keep the local authorities informed as to what appears in the local newspapers.