HC Deb 10 June 1903 vol 123 cc442-3
MR. HERBERT ROBERTS (Denbighshire, W.)

To ask the Secretary of State for India whether the investigation instituted into the allegations made against the Excise Administration of † See (4) Debates, cxviii, 1223. Assam, in the Memorandum issued by Mr. James Buckingham, C.I.E., on behalf of the planters, has been completed; and whether he is now in a position to state the results of the investigation.

(Answered by Secretary Lord George Hamilton.) I have no information as to whether the investigation has been completed. The Report which the Government of India are to submit to me on its conclusion has not yet reached me.