§ MAJOR SEELYI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the recruiting of coolies in China, under the Convention of 13th May, 1904, has now been finally closed; and whether the recruiting agencies, set up with the assistance of British consular officers under the terms of that Convention, have been abolished.
§ MR. CHURCHILLThe British consular officers were instructed to resume, as from 30th November last, the functions delegated by them to the Transvaal emigration agents in respect of recruiting, and no recruiting under the Convention is now possible.