Part of Oral Answers to Questions — African Colonies – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 26 November 1947.
Mr Jon Rankin
, Glasgow Tradeston
12:00,
26 November 1947
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that a boy of 15 years of age was sentenced to 12 strokes for participating in the Uplands bacon factory riot in Kenya; that in August an African was sentenced to three years hard labour with 15 strokes for robbery with violence and that these cases are not isolated; and what steps are being taken by the Government of Kenya to reduce or abolish flogging.
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.
