§ MR. LOUGHTo ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies what special conditions exist in the gold-mining industry on the Rand making it right to omit from the Chinese Ordinance the provisions which have been inserted in other Colonial Immigration Ordinances ensuring to its imported labourers direct access to the magistrates' Courts to complain of their wrongs, and giving them special protection against assaults or ill-treatment by their employers.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton.) In my opinion it is better for the interest of the labourer that he should be represented in the magistrates' Court by his superintendent. If the Chinese desire personal access to the Courts their object may be secured by regulation.