The British government is inquiring into the complaints received from the General Federation of Jewish Labor in Palestine that the evidence tendered to the Palestine Inquiry Commission by Albert Hyamson, chief immigration officer of Palestine, that the immigration certificates under the labor schedule were supplied in blank to the Federation was incorrect, the House of Commons was informed by Dr. Drummond Shiels, British undersecretary for the Colonies, in replying to a question from William Brown as to what steps the government proposed to take regarding these representations.
Dr. Shiels today denied that Sir John Simpson, investigating problems of land settlement, immigration and development in Palestine, had also been instructed to investigate the possibilities of greater agricultural development in Transjordania and the closer settlement of the nomadic population there.
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