§ MR. HUNT (Shropshire, Ludlow)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether it is provided under the Transvaal Ordinance that the Chinaman will only be employed in the same class of work as that which was performed by South African natives before the war; and, if not, whether he will take steps to see that this is effected.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. LYTTELTON,) Warwick and LeamingtonThe Transvaal Ordinance provides that the Chinese labourers are to be employed only on unskilled labour in the exploitation of minerals, and defines unskilled labour as such labour as is usually performed in mines in the Witwatersrand district by persons belonging to the aboriginal races or tribes of Africa, south of the Equator.