§ MR. EDMUND ROBERTSON (Dundee)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, seeing that by the Australian Immigration Act of 1901, workmen from the United Kingdom proceeding to Australia under a contract to perform manual labour are liable, on landing, to be imprisoned for six months and afterwards deported, he will state whether any correspondence on the subject took place between the Imperial Government and the Governor General of Australia or the Government of the Commonwealth; and if so, whether he will lay it upon the Table of the House.
§ * MR. LYTTELTONNo, Sir. No correspondence has passed with the Commonwealth Government in regard to the provision referred to in the Australian Immigration Act.