§ Mr. T. SMITHasked the Secretary for Mines the total amount of money paid as mining royalties for the 10 years ending 1921 and the approximate number of mining-royalty owners?
§ Lieut.-Colonel LANE-FOX:The total amount of money paid as royalties in the coal-mining industry for the 10 years ended 1921 was approximately £60,000,000. The number of owners of coal royalties was estimated by the Board of Inland Revenue, in evidence given before the Coal Industry Commission in 1919, at about 3,800. I have no later information, nor have I statistics of royalties on minerals other than coal.