§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been directed to a land settlement scheme in the Transvaal initiated or proposed by the Government or a Mr. W. Carlis, whereby Mr. Carlis is to obtain half profits of the labour of certain white settlers now in a helpless condition for want of funds, who are to be handed over to him on terms of forced labourers; and whether, having regard to the fact that the Government of the Transvaal is pledged to a philanthropic treatment of these indigent whites, why is an undertaking of land settlement not carried out departmentally instead of being entrusted to a commercial gentleman for the purposes of profit. And what arrangements, if any, have been made by the Transvaal Government for the supervision of the treatment of the indigent settlers placed under the control of Mr. Carlis.
§ MR. J. CHAMBERLAINI have no knowledge of the scheme to which the 16 hon. Member refers. Full information with regard to the schemes of Burgher settlement which appear to be referred to will be found at pages 65 and following of Cd. 1551 and pages 14 and following of Cd. 1553.
§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLThat answer does not give me much information.
§ MR. J. CHAMBERLAINBut the Papers will.