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South Africa.

Mr A. 11. McTavish, who went to South Africa with the Second New Zealand Contingent, and returned

to the colony with them, but who subsequently revisited the Transvaal, and has been employed, in the audit branch of the Repatriations Department at Pretoria, returned to Wellington last week, the department having concluded its work as far as Pretoria was concerned. Mr McTavish states that things are in a dreadful state at present throughout the whole of South Africa, and there are many thousands without work living in a most wretched condition. So bad are affairs that as soon as the office he was employed in put up shutters he decided to return to New Zealand, The condition of things at Capetown is as wretchedly chaotic as in the cities of the Transvaal, and from pi’esent indications it would seem that it will be many years before the country will right itself. Speaking ori the subject of the introduction of Chinese labour into the Rand, Mr McTavish states that the “ man in the street ” is directly opposed to it, but the enormous surplus population - the out-of-work thousands are being starved into believing that it would be for their benefit by the resumption of the full working capacity of the mines and the development of others, which at the worst could not make

their circumstances less favourable than at present.

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Manawatu Herald, 4 February 1904, Page 3

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South Africa. Manawatu Herald, 4 February 1904, Page 3

South Africa. Manawatu Herald, 4 February 1904, Page 3

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