§ 23. Mr. HARTSHORNasked the Secretary for Mines what number of persons over the age of 65 years are employed in the coal-mining industry and in the South Wales coalfield, respectively?
§ Colonel LANE FOXThe latest information is that obtained from the Decennial Census of Population of 1921 when 2.7 per cent. of the persons employed in the coal mining industry were 65 years of age or over. The figure for South Wales was 2.3 per cent.