§ MR. HERBERT SAMUEL (Yorkshire, Cleveland)To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will state what was the ratio of white men employed on the gold mines, either of the Transvaal as a whole or of the Rand district, to every 1,000 coloured men (Kaffirs and Chinese) so employed in each of years 1897, 1898, 1899, 1902, and 1903, and in each of the months of 1904.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton.) In 1897 and 1898 for the Transvaal mines as a whole, the figures at my disposal give the ratio of white men to every 1,000 coloured men as 137 and 130. 303 For July, 1899, for Witwatersrand mines only, the ratio was 116. For the Transvaal mines in July, 1902, the ratio was 250, in July, 1903, 174, and for the year 1904: January, 170; February, 164; March, 159; April, 161; May, 169; June, 177; July, 183; August, 183; September, 170; October, 158; November, 150; December, 143.