§ MR. MASSIE (Wiltshire, Cricklade)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that the British Resident at the Malay State of Selangor recommended the Council, at a meeting held at Kuala Lumpur on 26th November 1906, to agree that the Native Government should contribute out of public funds, dollar for dollar of the amount raised by subscription up to an aggregate sum of $30,000 for the erection of a Mahommedan mosque in that city; and whether His Majesty's Government will take steps to prevent this State endowment of religion out of Native public funds.
§ (Answered by Mr. Churchill.) The Secretary of State has no information on the subject, but it would appear to be one which can safely be left to the discretion of the Sultan and his advisers.