§ 43. Mr. Dayasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will give the particulars supplied by the Governor of Sierra Leone of the number of applications received and granted for prospecting licences in connection with platinum in that Colony?
§ Mr. Ormsby-GoreThe figures requested are not on record in the Colonial Office, but inquiry will be made of the Governor. According to the last published report, that is, for 1936, there were five licensees, who between them won 480 ounces of platinum in that year.
§ Mr. Ormsby-GoreI expect so. You could not give several licensees the right to go prospecting in the same stream.
§ Major Sir George DaviesWill the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind the shortage of platinum blondes out there?