§ 1. Mr. Thomas Reidasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, if the Far Eastern Commission sanctioned the scheme allowing the Japanese to develop a phosphate industry at Angaur Island in the Palau Group, near New Guinea; and if the Australian or British Government representatives objected to this scheme.
The Minister of State (Mr. McNeil)The subject has not been discussed in the Far Eastern Commission. The second part of the Question does not, therefore, arise.