§ 68. Mr. KEIR HARDIEasked the President of the Board of Trade how many of the successful candidates at the examinations in mine surveying, held under the Coal Mines Act, 1911, in November, 1912, May, 1913, and November, 1913, at Cardiff, were working colliers or sons of working colliers; and how many were sons of colliery managers or other colliery officials?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. McKenna)My right hon. Friend has asked me to reply to this question. I have no information as to the occupations of the parents of these candidates nor as to the previous employments of the candidates themselves, beyond the fact that all of them had had, as required by the Order prescribing the qualifications of surveyors, two years' practical experience in the surveying of mines.