§ Mr. DAYasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies the total number of quarries now being worked in Trinidad; the number which are private or Government quarries; and whether he has any statistics that will show whether the Government quarries are remunerative?
§ Dr. SHIELSThe exact number of Government-owned quarries in Trinidad is not stated in the records available at the Colonial Office, but the total number of quarries worked in the island was 76 in the year 1928. During the same year the daily average number of per-434W sons employed was, in private quarries, 431, and in Government quarries 382, a total of 813. I am not aware whether the Government quarries are remunerative, but the value of the products obtained from them in 1928 was £9,613.