Oral Answers to Questions — Post Office. – in the House of Commons at on 1 March 1928.
Mr Lawrence Lumley
, Kingston upon Hull East
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India if the operations for the freeing of slaves in Burma have been concluded; and the number of slaves who have been made free?
Viscount Turnour
, Horsham and Worthing
No report in the sense of the first part of the question has yet been received, though it has been stated in the Press that all slaves in the Triangle have now been released. I cannot therefore state the number of slaves set free.
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.
