Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce. – in the House of Commons at on 4 May 1938.
Mr Robert Morgan
, Stourbridge
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been called to the closing down of the Nipah estate in Malaya, which was the only concern producing power spirit in the country; and whether, in the in- terests of the community as well as of the Empire, some assistance will be given by the Government to this industry, especially in view of the creation of the Singapore dock?
Mr William Ormsby-Gore
, Stafford
I have received no information on the subject, but I am asking the High Commissioner for the Malay States for a report.
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.
