§ SIR GILBERT PARKER (Gravesend)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies has the Government received any information from the Orange River Colony which would indicate that a majority of the population would prefer a form of government which would not involve the operation of the full party system.
§ MR. CHURCHILLThe Secretary of State will be in a better position to judge as to the views of the majority of the population upon this matter after the South African Committee have visited the Colony and have reported. I see no public advantage to be gained by premature and fragmentary announcements of the constitutional methods to be adopted in either Colony.