Mr. Creech Jonesasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies when the report of a committee appointed to review 359W the Resident Native Labourers Ordinance, 1925, in Kenya, will be published; and whether progress with the proposals in Kenya to regulate afresh the conditions of residence of African labourers on Europeans' farms can be delayed pending such publication?
§ Mr. Ormsby-GoreThe Committee to which the hon. Member refers was appointed by the Governor of Kenya and prepared the draft of a new Ordinance which was submitted to my predecessor in 1935. It is not proposed to publish its report. I have made some suggestions for alteration in the draft and I understand that the Colonial Government is giving further consideration to the points I have raised.