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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4582, 4 July 1923, Page 4

Writing to a Wellington friend in answer to inquiries as to prospects in South Africa, a settler at Pomeroy, Trappes Valley, South Africa, states that things in the Union are not at all bright; in fact, conditions have not been at all good since the war. “But,’’ he adds, “I believe ,we are a great deal better off than many other countries.” There is a certain of unemployment, and the Government has started relief works in several towns. The rate of pay for men employed on such works is 6s per day ; this scale of payment, the writer adds, is causing much ciissaitisfaction, particularly as Kaffirs, in some instances, are receiving the sama wage. For labouring -work on farms, however, the Kaffir will work for as low a wage as £1 a month and keep. But. says the writer, they are dreadfully lazy. “The chances here,” concludes the letter, “are as good if not better than many other parts of the world for the man who is not afraid of hard work, and who will tackle anything that may present itself..”