§ 10. Major POLEasked the Secretary of State for India the present position in the matter of the consultations between the Government of India and the Provincial Governments on the ques- 5 tion of centralising the whole subject of cinchona cultivation and the manufacture and distribution of quinine, as suggested by the Royal Commission on Agriculture in India, as a first step towards the reduction of the price of quinine in India to a level at which it would be possible to embark on an extensive anti-malaria campaign?
§ Mr. BENNThe Government of Madras have expressed their agreement with the recommendations of the Royal Commission and their willingness to transfer their plantations and factory to the Government of India. The Government of Bengal wish to retain their plantations and factory in their own hands and consider that in any case no change should be made until the future constitution of the Central and Provincial Governments has been settled. In the case of Burma no action can of course be taken, at least for the present, in view of the recommendation of the Round Table Conference in favour of the separation of Burma. I am sending my hon. and gallant Friend a copy of a report recently received from the Government of India.