§ MR. HAROLD COX (Preston)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been called to the Report of Mr. Harry Smith, Principal Immigration Restriction Officer of Natal, for the year 1907, proposing among other things that the Immigration Department should have power to nominate the European language which is to be used to test the fitness of Indians wishing to enter the Colony as free men; and whether the effect of giving such power to the Immigration Department would be to enable that Department to exclude from a British Colony British-Indians who are perfectly conversant with the English language but who failed to pass a test in German, Russian, or Yiddish.
§ MR. MORLEYThe Report has not been seen either by myself or by my noble friend the Secretary of State for the Colonies. It has not been received at either office.