SIR MANCHERJEE BHOWNAG-GREE (Bethnal Green, N.E.)To ask the Secretary of State for India if the consideration of the Report by the Government of India on the subject of permitting indentured Indian labour for the African Colonies is completed, and, if so, what conditions are agreed upon; and further, in ease of any difference of opinion existing regarding the conditions between the Government of India and the African colonial authorities, will he state what course he intends to pursue.
(Answered by Secretary Lord George Hamilton.) I am not aware of any Report by the Government of India on the subject of Indian labour in the South African Colonies, but, as I stated in this House on the 10th of June,† communications have passed between this country and India on the matter. No arrangements, however, have as yet been made. If a difference of opinion should arise between the Indian and South African authorities the course taken by the Government must depend on the nature of the difference.