Natal Poll Tax Collection.

HC Deb 21 May 1906 vol 157 cc928-9

MR. BYLES

I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether official orders were given, and by whom, for the premature collection of the poll tax in Natal, in violation of Clause VI. of The Poll Tax Act, 1905, of the Natal Government.

MR. RUNCIMAN

The Tax was due on the 1st of January. There was therefore no premature collection.