§ Mr. HEPWORTHasked the Secretary for Mines if he is aware that royalty owners in South Wales are showing reluctance to continue the concessions they made to colliery companies on account of depressed conditions in the coal industry for fear that by doing so they may depreciate the value of their properties for compensation purposes; and whether he will state as soon as possible the terms of the Government's scheme to unify coal-mining royalties?
§ Captain CROOKSHANKThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative, and to the second part in the affirmative.