§ * MR. HOLLAND (Yorkshire, W.R., Rotherham)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the powers of the Transvaal Concessions Commission, now sitting, are limited to the consideration of concessions already granted by the late Transvaal Government; and, in the event of their being so limited, will he consider the propriety of extending their powers so as to include the consideration of such industrial concessions as were on the point of being granted by the Volksraad at the time of the outbreak of the war.
§ MR. J. CHAMBERLAINThe answer to the first part of this question is in the affirmative. As regards the second part I do not consider that it is desirable to extend the scope of the Commission's 677 inquiry beyond those concessions in respect of which the late Republic had incurred definite legal obligations.