§ MR. H. H. MARKS (Kent, Thanet)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether women and girls are employed by Government Departments in Ceylon in breaking metal for road making and road repairing, being paid at a rate varying from the equivalent of 3d. to 6d. a day; and whether he proposes to take any steps to put a stop to the employment of female labour on such work.
§ THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Colonel SEELY,) Liverpool, AbercrombyI am aware that in the ease of relief works women and children have sometimes been employed in Ceylon on road making and repairing, but I do not know 1390 whether they are so employed on ordinary occasions. The Secretary of State, will, however, make inquiry into the matter.