§ MR. TIMOTHY DAVIES (Fulham)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will give the number of Chinese coolies employed in the Transvaal mines on 1st July, 1907, 1st January, 1908, and 1st May, 1908.
§ MR. RUNCIMAN (for Colonel SEELY)The figures received are for the last and not the first days of each month. They show for 30th June, 1907, 51,517; for 30th December, 1907, 37,118; for 30th April, 1908, 24,059.