§ MR. RUNCIMAN (Dewsbury)To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Bill recently introduced into the Cape Parliament limiting traders to the use of certain European languages will, in effect, inflict any disability on British Indians resident in Cape Colony which is not inflicted on Yiddish-speaking aliens; and, if so, what steps he proposes to take in the matter.
§ (Answered by Mr. Secretary Lyttleton.) I would point out that the provision in the Bill as introduced is not compulsory, as suggested in the hon. Member's Question. I am not, therefore, in a position to say whether the Bill will have such an effect, until it is passed and a case of the kind arises under it.