MR. HERBERT ROBERTS (Denbighshire, W.)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the attention of the Secretary of State has been called to the recent temperance movement in Poona and to the prosecutions instituted by the police against temperance workers who have endeavoured to dissuade persons from entering liquor shops; and whether he is in a position to make a statement upon the subject.
§ MR. BUCHANANThe Secretary of State's information is to the effect that the methods of the temperance workers in question and others who joined them were not compatible with the maintenance of order, and that on one occasion a somewhat serious disturbance arose. The Secretary of State believes that no hindrance whatever has been placed in the way of bona fide temperance work by the action of the authorities.