MAJOR SEELYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he can now state what proportion of the total annual output of gold, elsewhere than in the Transvaal, is produced by white labour; and whether he has any official information showing that the conditions are more favourable to the employment of white labour in the case of such mines as employ white labour, than in the mines of the Transvaal; and, if not, in what districts conditions are less favourable.
§ *MR. LYTTELTONI cannot say what proportion of the output of the world, outside the Transvaal, is produced by white labour, nor do I receive the detailed information which would enable me to compare one mine with another. But broadly speaking, wherever there is no coloured population the conditions for the employment of white labour are more favourable than they are in the Transvaal.
§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTON (Tower Hamlets, Poplar)Why not refer the matter to a small Commission for inquiry?
§ [No answer was returned.]