Earl of RONALDSHAYasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury if he will state the number of Chinese indentured labourers remaining in South Africa on 30th November, 1909, 31st December, 1909, and 31st January, 1910, respectively.
§ MASTER of ELIBANKThe number of Chinese labourers employed in the Transvaal gold mines was according to the figures supplied by the Transvaal Chamber of Mines as follows on the dates referred to:—
30th November, 1909 … 3,197 31st December, 1909 … 1,910 31st January, 1910 … 1,908
Earl of RONALDSHAYasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury if he will state if the Chinese Labour Ordinance of 1904 terminated in March, 1908, under the provisions of the Transvaal Constitution; if the Ordinance was re-enacted for a period of two years in August, 1907, by the Transvaal Government; and, if so, if such re-enactment received the sanction of His Majesty, on the advice of His Majesty's Government, in December of the same year?
§ MASTER of ELIBANKThe facts are as given in the question, except that the Ordinance of 1904 did not, in fact, terminate in March, 1908, inasmuch as the Act of 1907, which came into force on 7th January, 1908, continued it in operation; and, further, the despatch in which the Governor was informed that His Majesty would not be advised to exercise his powers of disallowance was dated in November, not in December. The correspondence will be found in the Parliamentary Paper Cd. 3994.
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