Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce. – in the House of Commons at on 4 May 1938.
Major Henry Procter
, Accrington
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that, in order to circumvent the quota restriction on cotton piece goods imported into the Malay States, Japanese exporters are sending in cotton shirts with tails several yards long so that, although the shirts are defined as one garment, the tails can be cut off and used as piece goods; and whether steps have now been taken to deal with this evasion of the quota restrictions?
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.
