*CAPTAIN FABER (Hampshire, Andover)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether the native babus in the Madras secretariat office have electric punkah fans, whereas the British troops serving in the same fort, Fort St. George, have no punkahs at all between 1st September and 1st April, and when they do have them are only allowed coolie-pulled punkahs which give little or no relief; and whether he will see that this difference of treatment is rectified.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE for INDIA (Mr. MORLEY, Montrose Burghs)The provision of electric punkahs in barracks and military build- 122 ings was begun in 1903, and, if continued on the lines originally contemplated, will lead to the provision of electric punkahs for the British troops at Fort St. George, if they have not already been provided.