§ Captain Pluggeasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he was consulted in any way and, if so, with what result, before the rating of site values was permitted in the chief towns of the Malay States?
Mr. M. MacDonaldI am not aware of the recent introduction of a new system of rating in the Federated Malay States. The principle to which the question refers has been in operation there for the last to years or more. No exception was taken to it at the time by the then Secretary of State, and no complaints have previously reached the Colonial Office.