§ COLONEL LOCKWOOD (Essex, Epping)to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that it has been proposed that half of Mr. 1226 Henry Phipps' gift, intended for the Indian people generally, shall be applied to the establishment of a Pasteur Institute in Southern India; can he state whether any official sanction has been given to this scheme; and whether, before any definite decision is arrived at for the allocation of Mr. Phipps' contribution, the correspondence relating thereto will be placed before Parliament.
(Answered by Secretary Lord George Hamilton.) I have not received any official communication on the subject from the Government of India, but I believe that, in view of the great benefits conferred on the European and the native community in India by the Pasteur Institute in the Punjab, the Viceroy proposes to apply half Mr. Henry Phipps' munificent gift to the establishment of a similar Institute in Southern India. I cannot give my hon. friend the undertaking which he asks for in the latter portion of his Question.