asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will give a table showing, respectively, those Colonies which give a preference to cotton piece-goods imported from Great Britain with the amount of the preference to these Colonies where the im- portation of cotton piece-goods from all countries is free of duty, and those Colonies which impose duties without preference on imported cotton piece-goods, stating the amount of the duty?

As the information for which my hon. Friend asks can most easily be given in tabular form, and as the statement is a very long one, I am sending it to him direct.

asked the Minister of Labour who is representing the Government of this country at the second session of the International Labour Office Conference dealing with salaried employés now meeting at Geneva?

The Government have no seat on the Advisory Committee on Salaried Employés, to which I assume the hon. Members refers.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the financial position revealed in the address of His Excellency the Governor of Northern Rhodesia introducing his first Estimates, the development of a new capital at Lusaka is to be retarded?

Owing to the generosity of the Beit Railway Trust, which has offered to guarantee for a period the interest on the necessary expenditure, I hope that it will not be necessary to delay the development of the new capital. I should like to take this opportunity of expressing to the Beit Trust my appreciation—which I am sure the House will share—of their generous offer to Northern Rhodesia.

asked the Minister of Transport whether he will publish the findings of the Industrial Court in regard to the application recently made for a variation of the provisions of Section 19 of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, before making any order upon the application?

The Act places the responsibility for a decision on the Minister, and I do not propose to publish any advice which I may receive from the Industrial Court in advance of announcing my decision. If there is any general desire that the advice of the Industrial Court should be made public, I will consider the desirability of making their report available.