SOUTH AFRICA TO-DAY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1862, 23 September 1913, Page 6

SOUTH AFRICA TO-DAY.

RE-STOCKING THE FARM LANDS. Mr. A. Webb, a resident of Johannesburg, who is touring Now Zealand, informed a Dominion reporter on Saturday that there was no doubt whatever about the general improvement that was taking 'place in South Africa. Like all other countries thero would bo labour troubles in the cities as witness the recent riots in Johannesburg (which had occurred after ho had left the country), but thoso troubles could not hold baok a great country like South Africa with its vast', potential wealth and enormous agricultural resources. Tho disastrous eir'eots of tho war were being slowly obliterated, and legislation was being promoted to open up and stock vast aroas of good farming country. Olio great aid to farmers was tho recent enactment which provided that tho transit charges of all pedigreo stock imported from England into South Africa would bo borno by tho Stato. This Act had boen tho Ineans of a great number of pedigrco stock being imported into tho country, and as a result, tho hords (decimated during tho war) would bo greatly strengthened and improved in a year or two. It was only from England that tho stock could bo imported free to the farmer, and it was proving a very good thing for breeders in tho Old Country. Altogether the outlook in South Africa was distinctly a bright ono.