HC Deb 26 March 1903 vol 120 cc300-1
MR. GEORGE WHITE (Norfolk, N.W.)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been directed to a letter from the rector of Thaba 'Nchu, South Africa, to the effect that a systematic-impressing of natives for Government and other work is carried on in that district, and that he has had to sign papers certifying reasons why certain inhabitants ought to be excused from this press gang system; and whether he will take steps to have it stopped.

THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE WAR OFFICE (Lord STANLEY,) Lancashire, Westhoughton

My right hon. friend the Secretary to the Colonies asks me to refer the hon. Member to his reply to a similar Question on the 23rd instant.†