§ Sir R. GOWERasked the Secretary for Mines the number of ponies per million tons of coal raised in 1933 in the mines of Nottinghamshire. North Derbyshire, South Derbyshire, Leicestershire, North and South Staffordshire; and the number of ponies employed per million tons raised in the districts of Lancashire, Yorkshire South and Yorkshire West, Durham, Northumberland, Scotland, and 1141W in the Swansea and Cardiff divisions, in the same year?
§ Mr. E. BROWNThe information, so far it is available at present, is as follows:
District and number of ponies employed per 1,000,000 tons of coal raised.
(Provisional.) Nottinghamshire … … 174 North Derbyshire … … 266 South Derbyshire … … 370 Leicestershire … … 292 North Staffordshire … … 15 South Staffordshire (including Cannock Chase) and Worcestershire … … 286 Lancashire and Cheshire … … 18 South Yorkshire … … 107 West Yorkshire … … 257 Durham … … 378 Northumberland … … 259 Scotland … … 35 Swansea Division, Cardiff Division … … 259