asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs at what date the description of the preamble of the South Africa Act of 1909 as a promise that the Protectorates should be transferred to the Union was accepted by the Union and by his Department, respectively; and if objections were made to the grant of self-government to Southern Rhodesia as one of the territories mentioned and to the constitution of Northern Rhodesia as a Protectorate under the Colonial Office?