§ Major POLEasked the Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been drawn to the resignation, as a protest against the system of communal electorates set up recently in Fiji, of the three Indian members elected to the Legislative Council; whether he is aware that at the elections which were called as a consequence no Indian candidates were nominated by the Indians in Fiji for these three seats; and whether the Government of India have made representations to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, placing before him the objections of the Indians in Fiji to the electoral roll of the Legislative Council in the Colony being divided along lines of communal difference?
§ Mr. BENNThe answer to the first two parts of the question is in the affirmative. As regards the last part, the situation that has arisen is now under the consideration of Government.