MR, PRICE (Norfolk, S.)To ask the Postmaster General, as representing the Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether he is aware that a manufacturer wishing to register a trade mark throughtout British South Africa would have to pay separate fees for each of the five Colonies, amounting altogether to £70 or thereabouts, and whether he will consider the advisability of consulting with the Governments of those Colonies with a view to their arriving at some joint arrangement in this matter.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain, for the Secretary of State for the Colonies.) The question is one affecting the internal revenue of the several Colonies, with which His Majesty's Government are unable to interfere.