§ MR. LONSDALEI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that the determination of His Majesty's Government not to permit further recruiting of Chinese indentured labourers for the Transvaal will lead to a disturbance of the existing system, voluntarily carried on by the Mines Labour Agency, of distributing the portion of the coolies' wages allotted to the support of their families in China; and, if so, what arrangements are being made for carrying on this work.
§ MR. RUNCIMANThe Secretary of State has been in communication with Lord Selborne for some time with a view of placing the allotment system on a more satisfactory footing, but he has had no intimation that it is proposed to discontinue it.