§ MR. CAINE (Cornwall, Camborne)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India, seeing that His Excellency the Viceroy of India has, in response to memorials from the proprietors of liquor bars in Calcutta and Rangoon, rescinded the orders of the local governors of Bengal and Burma, which prohibited the employment of women as barmaids, whether he can state what is the reason for this reversal.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON, Middlesex, Ealing)The prohibition in Bengal and Burma has been withdrawn because there were legal difficulties in I maintaining it, but an amendment of the law, with the object of placing the legal powers of the local governments in this matter beyond dispute, is contemplated.