§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTON (Tower Hamlets, Poplar)I beg to ask the Sec-rotary of State for the Colonies whether he can now state what safeguard there will be for the Chinese indentured labourer if, after an experience of some months, he finds that continuous work in the mines is deleterious to his health; whether if, under these circumstances, he breaks his contract with the object of returning to China, he will have to repay the expenses and the cost of his passage home; and, if so, whether arrangements will be made to render it possible for him to earn the necessary amount, seeing that he is prohibited from doing any work above ground.
§ MR. LYTTELTONI have to refer the hon. Member to my answer to a similar Question on the 29th March. †
§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTONOn the last occasion the right hon. Gentleman said he did not quite understand my Question. It was intended to refer to men who became unhealthy some months after they arrived in the Transvaal and found themselves unable to continue to work in the mines.