IN SOUTH AFRICA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 207, 27 May 1919, Page 5

IN SOUTH AFRICA

SERIOUS OUTLOOK FOR-GOLD INDUSTRY

SEVERAL MINES CLOSING

DOWN

By Telcgraph-Preee Association- Cojjyrlehl

tliec. May 20, 7.3(1 p.m.)

Cape Town, May 21. Sir E. Wallers, president uf the Johannesburg Mine, in a letter to the Premier, warned him of the critical position, of till) goldmiuiiig industry Nothing; he said, could now prevent n number of important mines from closing down shortly. \ lit urged upon the Government consideration of the position, in view of the unemployment and distress that must result. The Minister for Mines, interviewed, said that the Government , realised tlib gravity of ihe position, and-was'anxious to assist, but the Government could not undertake to keen .the mines working at a loss. It was considering' the appointment of a Commission to inquire into the whole position, with special consideration of the problem of the relationship of native coloured labour to the miuee._ The Cape Copper Company' 6 mine in •Namariualand has been closed, throwing idle three hundred Europeans and-three thousand natives— Aus.-NZ. Cable Assn. ; FOR WARTSERVICE ' IMPERIAL GIFT TO SOUTH AFRICA. ("Rec. May 26, -7.30 p.m.) . Cape Town, May 21. In the Union Assembly the Minister or Railways announced that the I Imperial Government had decided, to give the Union Government half a million sterling's worth of railway material, in recognition of tho national services rendered during the ■war.-Ans.'-N.Z .Cablo Assn. THE DMLCAPITAL N (Rec. May 26, 7.60 p.m.) Cape Town, May 21. The South African Senato- has rejected a motion to abolish the present system of having a dual capital at Cape Town and Pretoria, and establish one central capital.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ASIATICS iNSOUTH AFRICA THE INDIANS BILL. (Rec, May 26, 8 p.m.) Capo Town, May 23. The Union Assembly has amended the Indians Bills to prevent Asiatics holding mortgages on property except as' secuiitv for bona-fide loan or investment, and also providing that any Asiatic company which has acquired fixed property after May 1,. 1919, should dispose of its within a given poriod. A clause was adopted giving any issuing authority in the Transvaal the right to refuse trading licenses to Asiatics without assigning a reason.—Router.