Mr. Johnsonasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make a statement regarding the Committee of Inquiry upon African Beer Halls in Northern Rhodesia, appointed after the disturbances at Lusaka Boma Station in May, 1954.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydA Committee was appointed in 1954 to consider the provisions of the Liquor Licensing Ordinance in its application to Africans and coloured people. Its Report was published for information in August, 1955, and tabled in the Legislative Council in March, 1956. I have asked the Governor for further copies and will arrange for them to be placed in the Limrary. The Northern Rhodesia Government's proposals on this Report must await consideration of its financial implications for local authorities. The organisation of local authorities is the subject of the recent Brown Report which is now before the Northern Rhodesia Government.