§ MR. GRENFELL (Buckinghamshire, Wycombe)To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can give approximately the number of indentured East Indian immigrants in the Colonies, and where such labourer is chiefly employed.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton.) The numbers according to the latest information available are—Natal, 25,636, British Guiana, 14,609; Mauritius, 10,083; Fiji, 8,225; Trinidad, 7,678; Jamaica, 1,168. They are employed chiefly on sugar plantations, but also on cocoa plantations (in Trinidad), on fruit farms (Jamaica), and in coal mines (in Natal).