CAPTAIN SINCLAIRI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether the Government of the Colony of Victoria pay any bounty, direct or indirect, on the production of wine; and, if so, 957 whether such wine will be liable to a countervailing duty if imported into India?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON, Middlesex, Ealing)I understand that the Government of Victoria have in the past spent money to encourage the production of wine in that colony, but I doubt whether they have ever taken any measure which would bring their wines under the operation of the Indian Act. As I have already stated in this House, the Act will be administered by the Government of India, who must be guided by circumstances and by experience in dealing with the various cases as they arise.