HC Deb 17 March 1904 vol 131 cc1394-5
MR. BUCHANAN (Perthshire, E.)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Commissioner of Police in Johannesburg has issued a notice prohibiting coloured persons from using the sidewalks; whether this prohibition applies to British Indians in the Transvaal; and whether the regulation; has been sanctioned by Lord Milner.

*MR. LYTTELTON

I have no information as to any such recent notice. By the law of the Transvaal no coloured persons are allowed to walk on the sidepaths in the towns; but I understand from Lord Milner that the Transvaal police are under instructions not to interfere with respectably dressed and properly conducted Asiatics making use of sidepaths.

MR. BUCHANAN

asked if this applied to British Indian subjects.

*MR. LYTTELTON

was understood to answer, "Yes."

MR. SWIFT MACNEILL

These are sons of the Empire.

MR. MACVEAGH (Down, S.)

Equal rights for all races.