SIR GILBERT PARKERI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies how many natives discharged from the Kimberley and the Premier diamond mines, owing to depression in the diamond trade, are now employed on the Rand mines.
§ MR. CHURCHILLI am not in a position to give the figures desired by the hon. Member.
§ MR. CHURCHILLNo, Sir. I have already told the House that I am loth to burden the Transvaal Government with unnecessary requests for information. They are very good in supplying information, but the getting it involves them in considerable expense, and we must be sparing with our calls on the internal administration of self-governing Colonies.