Oral Answers to Questions — India. – in the House of Commons am ar 30 Mehefin 1924.
Mr Cecil Wilson
, Sheffield, Attercliffe
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether all liquor shops in Calcutta have been removed from those wards of the city in which the principal colleges and schools are situated; and, if so, can he state whether the removal was due to the action of the authorities or to the action of the owners, and if the former, can he ascertain the grounds for their action?
Mr Robert Richards
, Wrecsam
The matter is one for which responsibility rests with the Governor of Bengal acting with his Ministers, and I have no information on the subject.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
