Part of Oral Answers to Questions — India. – in the House of Commons at on 4 March 1929.
Mr Wilfred Wellock
, Stourbridge
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the Pathans who were employed in the place of strikers at the oil works concerned in the recent troubles are still in employment at these works?
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.
