§ MR. EDWARD DUNNTo ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any and what answer has been received to the third question in the Secretary of State for the Colonies' letter to the Earl of Selborne, of the-5th January, 1906 (Cd. 2819, page 46), asking for a Report showing whether, in the case of Chinese coolies who have served, say, six months on the mines, more or less supervision by white labourers is required, than in the case of coloured labourers, and which question seems 1285 to have been overlooked in the reply received to such letter by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the 27th January, 1906 (Cd. 2819, page 87).
(Answered by Mr. Churchill.) The Secretary of State is still awaiting the report referred to. His inquiry was by a mailed despatch dated 5th January, and could not, therefore, have been answered by Lord Selborne's despatch of 6th January,, which reached the Secretary of State on the 27th of that month.