§ MR. HALSEY (Hertfordshire, Watford)To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in the settlement in South Africa, care will be taken to give assistance to those British subjects settled in the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal who have suffered imprisonment and the confiscation of their stock and goods, because they refused to take up arms against this country in the late war, towards the restocking and, if necessary, rebuilding of their farms similar to that to be given to the Boers.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain.) I have already stated in my reply to the hon. Member for the Carmarthen District on the 9th of June† that the assistance given to loyalists needing help shall be at the least as generous as that given to the burghers.