THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS (THE EARL OF HOME)My Lords, as your Lordships know, a Royal Commission is due to be held shortly. It will take some little time for the Members of another place to conclude their proceedings. I would therefore suggest that we adjourn during pleasure. We will announce over the loudspeaker directly we know that the other place are ready, and your Lordships can reassemble. I beg to move that the House do adjourn during pleasure.
Moved, That the House do adjourn during pleasure.—(The Earl of Home.)
On Question, Motion agreed to, and House adjourned during pleasure accordingly.
House resumed.
926WAstate, for each of the last five years preceding the inauguration of the Central African Federation, the total cost to the Imperial Treasury, of the administration of Nyasaland, including grants-in-aid, and expenditure by the Colonial Development Corporation.
§ THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR COLONIAL AFFAIRS (THE EARL OF PERTH)The table below shows the assistance given to Nyasaland from United Kingdom Exchequer funds in each of the five United Kingdom financial years preceding the establishment of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in September, 1953.