§ 43. Mr. C. EDWARDSasked the Secretary for Mines how many boys between the ages of 14 and 16 have been received for employment into the mining industry since the conclusion of the stoppage last year?
§ Colonel LANE FOXI regret that the information is not available. The statistics are collected by my Department annually, and relate only to boys under 16 years of age, of whom 35,654 were em- 1173 ployed in the coal-mining industry in December, 1926, the latest date for which information is available.