Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Jamaica. – in the House of Commons am ar 29 Mawrth 1939.
No, Sir. The delay is due to the difficulty of finding a suitable Labour Officer, as to which I would refer to the reply given to the hon. Members for South Cardiff (Captain A.Evans) and Blackburn (Sir W. Smiles) on 15th March. In the absence of official statistics I am unable to give a definite figure of unemployed persons in Kingston, but I understand that the number is estimated at from 12,000 to 14,000.