§ SIR HOWARD VINCENTTo ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, if he is in a position to state the value of the mining machinery imported into the Transvaal between 1st January, 1902 and 31st December, 1905, and to give the proportions imported from the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States respectively.
(Answered by Mr. Churchill.) The total imports of mining machinery were as follows:—1902, £1,364,330; 1903, £1,402,681; 1904, £718,832; 1905, £728,350. The proportions as between the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany, were as follows:—
months is twenty-one, of whom fifteen were employed on the survey as civilians previous to enlistment. No civilians are now being discharged in consequence of the drafting of sappers. The Derby division of the Ordnance Survey is being broken up, owing to the fact that the general revision of the survey of Great Britain is practically completed. The staff of the Survey has been continuously reduced for some time past by not filling up the vacancies that have occurred, the men no longer required being transferred, as far as possible, to other work. It has, however, been found impossible to provide in this way for the whole of the staff of the Derby division, and notice of discharge has been given to seventeen assistants. I shall be glad to supply my hon. friend with a statement of the names, ages, and services of the men to whom notice has been given.