Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Swaziland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 28 April 1964.
Mr Stephen Swingler
, Newcastle-under-Lyme
12:00,
28 April 1964
asked the Secretary of State for the Commonwealth and the Colonies if he will consent to the purchase of Mr. Sydney Kitching's farms in Swaziland by the Swaziland National Council so as to assist him to comply with the Commissioner's request to leave the territory by 30th June.
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.
