Bahamas International Trading Company.

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Tanganyika. – in the House of Commons at on 6 July 1925.

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asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if his attention has been called to the offer for sale of shares of the Bahamas International Trading Company, Limited, which is a company formed, or being formed, to take part in liquor smuggling to the United States of America, the president and two of the directors of which are members of the Bahamas Legislative Assembly; if he is aware that it is claimed that the undertaking benefits from their good offices in their legislative capacity; and whether he will obtain a Report from the Governor of the Bahamas on the facts revealed by the document in question?

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