§ Mr. COOPERasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he was aware that Nyasaland had a large surplus of unemployed native labour and placed every obstacle in the way of natives being recruited for or emigrating to Rhodesia, 1911 where they were urgently needed and were paid from two and a-half times upwards the rate of wages paid in Nyasaland; and was he prepared to advise the Governor of Nyasaland to make such regulations as would permit surplus labour to emigrate to or be recruited for Rhodesia under suitable Government control?
Mr. HARCOURTAs at present advised I am not prepared to sanction the recruitment of labour in Nyasaland for employment in Rhodesia. The policy at present approved is that natives desirous of proceeding to Rhodesia on their own initiative receive passes enabling them to do so, and then proceed to Rhodesia under full supervision and with every precaution for their welfare. The whole question, however, is at present forming the subject of correspondence.