AFRICAN AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1922, Page 2

AFRICAN AFFAIRS

VUSTRALIa)- 4SO N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION

REMARKABLE CAVE FIND. .Received This Day at 8 a.m.) x.CAPETOWN, April Hi

A remarkable discovery was made at Raster, ninety miles from Johannesburg. Two Dutch fanners found an opening in the ground eighty feet in circumference, a sheer drop of two hundred feet. It then branched in a net work of passages through the solid rock in all directions. Some of the deeper fissures had a- depth of five hundred feet. These passages were filled with the mummified remains of birds and animals in a remarkable state of preservation. Vast numbers of remains of apes and birds were brought to the surface. Preparations are being made to more exhaustively explore the caves.

AFRICAN LABOUR. CAPETOWN, April 16

The Conference to discuss the question of the admission of Rhodesia to tl'.e South African Union is practically over. No definite decision has yet been formulated. They will lie submitted to Rhodesia later.

Mr Boy dell (Labour leader) addressing tbe annual Congress of Cape Province Labour Federation, said there was no country in the world where Labour organisations had such a difficult task to face us South Africa, because there were so many social questions cutting across the economic problems. South Africa was the lost stronghold oi the capital class, because the Government was sympathetic to capitalists. No oilier country had among its employees such a large reservoir of cheap labour. F.-iintor Fraser advised that whenever martial law was proclaimed, a general strike should be declared. A resolution was submitted in favour of the Federation of Labour embracing coloured workers.