§ Sir WILLIAM BULLasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that the Transvaal Draft Municipal Ordinance gives to municipalities the power to refuse to issue hawkers', pedlars', and other similar licences, and that such refusal is unappealable to the Courts; and whether, in view of the experience in Natal and the Cape Colony that the withdrawal of the right of appeal is calculated to bear hardly upon Indian interests in the province, he will say what action he proposes to take to prevent the refusal of a means of honest livelihood to His Majesty's Indian subjects lawfully resident in the Transvaal?
Mr. HARCOURTMy attention has been called to the Ordinance in question, and I am making inquiries as to it of the Governor-General of the Union of South Africa.