§ MR. WEDGWOOD (Newcastle-under-Lyme)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether in dealing with the prohibition of the import of alcohol into southern Nigeria and the resulting loss of revenue to that Colony, he will consider the advisability of assimilating the taxation of Southern Nigeria to that of Northern Nigeria, where the principal source of revenue comes not from alcohol but from the land which is owned by the State.
§ THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (COLONEL SEELY, Liverpool, Abercromby)The Secretary of State has proposed to institute an inquiry into certain controverted facts connected with the consumption of spirituous liquor in Southern Nigeria, but the question of prohibiting the importation is not under consideration.
§ MR. WEDGWOODIs there any intention of extending to Southern Nigeria the system of taxation which obtains in Northern Nigeria?
§ COLONEL SEELYI could not answer a specific question of that nature without notice.