§ Brigadier - General Sir OWEN THOMASasked the Secretary of Mines whether he will consider, under the powers of the Mines Act, 1920, the reopening of the Parys Copper Mine, Anglesey, which gave employment formerly to 1,500 people, seeing that the lode is rich and far from being exhausted and that profitable employment could be found for hundreds of unemployed men?
§ Sir P. LLOYD-GREAMEThe question of Government assistance in this matter has been several times carefully considered. The Parys mine has been frequently examined by experts in recent years above the adit level, but although wide bodies of low-grade ore have been found in the faces of the old stopes, the results of such investigations have not been sufficiently encouraging to enable money to be found to pump out the water from the mines below adit level and to sample the lodes at the bottom. In these circumstances the Government is not prepared to take action.