Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 27 March 1935.
Sir Robert Hamilton
, Orkney and Shetland
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the numbers of the various non-native residents in Tanganyika according to nationality?
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.