§ MR. ERRINGTONasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether any reports have been received from Mr. Layard, British Consul in New Caledonia, as to irregularities in the importation or treatment of Polynesian labourers in that French Colony; and, if so, whether there would be any objection to lay these reports, or abstracts of them, upon the Table of the House?
§ MR. BOURKE,in reply, said, that two Reports had been received at the Foreign Office on the subject from Mr. Layard, the British Consul. He had read the Reports, and they did not appear to bear out the allegation as to irregularities and ill-treatment which 1939 had been made. It was not worth while to print the Reports; but if the hon. Member would call at the Foreign Office he might see them.