§ Mr. LYNCHasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if he can state how many British-Indians have been deported from the Transvaal for resistance to the registration laws of that Colony; whether practically the whole of the Indian population of the Colony were domiciled there in the time of the late Republic, and have since established their titles to be in the country; whether he is aware that the deportees include even British-Indians born in South Africa, and in some cases born in the Transvaal; and whether His Majesty's Government will take steps to determine such a condition of things?
§ Colonel SEELYI cannot say what the actual number of deportations has been, but it will be seen on reference to the Papers just laid before Parliament that 97 per cent., or more probably now, of the Asiatic residents in the Transvaal entitled to registration have actually been registered. With regard to the concluding part of the question I would refer to my reply to a question on the subject addressed to me the day before yesterday by the hon. Member for East Leeds.