§ MR. HOGANI beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether any of Her Majesty's ships on the Australian Station have been specially charged with the duty of supervising the recruiting of Kanakas; and whether any official Report has yet been received from the Admiral in command on the Australian Station as to the working of the new Regulations adopted by the Parliament of Queensland for the recruiting of Kanakas for the sugar plantations of that Colony?
SIR U. KAY-SHUTTLEWORTHSome of Her Majesty's ships on the Australian Station are annually employed among the Pacific Islands, and among their duties is that of preventing abuses in recruiting labourers. No Report has been received from the Commander-in-Chief as to the working of the regulations issued by the Governor of Queensland in May, 1892, in pursuance of the Pacific Island Labourers Acts, 1890–92.