§ SIR JOHN KENNAWAYI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, in view of the immediate extension of the railway from Lagos to Illorin, what steps have been taken by the Government to establish a zone of prohibition, as foreshadowed by Lord Elgin, between Southern and Northern Nigeria, in order to prevent the smuggling of rail-borne spirits from Southern Nigeria into Northern Nigeria.
§ COLONEL SEELYThe Secretary of State has approved of the rate for the carriage of spirits on the railway north of Ibadan being raised, and of the carriage of spirits on the railway being prohibited beyond Ikerun, a Southern Nigeria town ten miles south of the Northern Nigeria boundary. He has also approved of the transport of spirits on the Niger being prohibited within a distance of twenty-five miles of the Northern Nigeria boundary.