§ Mr. KELLYasked the Minister of Labour the number of quarry workers who were registered as unemployed in May and June, 1928, respectively; and 859W the number of unemployed china-clay workers at the same period?
§ Mr. BETTERTONThe following table shows the numbers of insured persons in
Industry. Wholly unemployed. Temporarily stopped. Total Stone quarrying and mining 2,510 484 2,994 Slate quarrying and mining 298 105 403 Iron ore and ironstone mining and quarrying 1,498 559 2,057 Mining and quarrying not separately specified 1,175 228 1,403 Clay, sand, gravel and chalk pit digging 682 53 735 Separate statistics for china-clay workers are not available.