§ Captain ORMSBY-GOREasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether legislation has been recently introduced by the Government of the Union of South Africa in the Legislative Assembly at Cape Town to give effect to the recommendations of a Committee of Inquiry into the application of the Transvaal Gold Law and the Law of 1885 in regard to the holding of real property in the Transvaal by Asiatic limited liability companies; whether this legislation would, if passed, seriously menace the rights and property of British Indians who for many years have legally resided in the Transvaal; whether the Government of the Union of South Africa agreed at a meeting of the Imperial War Conference not to impose any new and further disabilities on British Indians in the Union of South Africa; and whether he will make further representations to the Union Government in the interests of British Indians in the Transvaal, with a view to allaying the apprehensions felt by many British Indians that their fellow-countrymen's position in South Africa is to be jeopardised?
§ Lieut.-Colonel AMERYI would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the answer which I gave on the 22nd instant to the question of the hon. and gallant Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme. I understand866W that rights of land ownership acquired by Indian companies up to date are not interfered with.