§ * MR. REES (Montgomery Boroughs)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any encouragement is given by the Government to British Colonists joining Volunteer Reserves in British Protectorates in Africa; and, if not, whether the Government will consider the advisability of making grants out of the revenues of individual Protectorates for this purpose.
§ THE FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS (Mr. Harcourt,for Mr. Churchill): Lancashire, Rossendale,In all the British Protectorates in Africa, 1635 except Somaliland, where local conditions do not lend themselves to such an arrangement, grants are made in support of volunteer Corps, and every encouragement is given to such Corps.