§ MR. SCHWANN (Manchester, N.)To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will state how many children there are of school-going age belonging to the immigrant coolies employed on the tea and other estates in Ceylon; what would be roughly the total cost of providing vernacular education for these children; whether, as in British Guiana, the education of these children will be made a duty of the employers; and whether he will advise the Ceylon Government so to increase the present grants-in-aid that this duty will not press unduly upon the employers.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton.) I am not in possession of the information for which the hon. Member asks in the first part of his Question, and I am unable to make any statement on the subject pending the receipt of the report which I have been for some time awaiting from the Colonial Government, and for which I have again asked by telegram.