§ MR. LABOUCHEREI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies what would be the position of an indentured Chinese labourer in the Transvaal, with a wife or wives and children, who declared his wish to return to China before the expiration of his term of servitude, if he had not the means to return with or without his family; would he and they be obliged to remain in the Transvaal and to work in the mines.
§ *MR. LYTTELTONThe labourer will have to carry out his contract, and continue to work to obtain the means of defraying the return passage of himself and family. It is not intended that the 301 wife and children should be employed on work in the mines.