SAFRICAN SMASH PREDICTED.
"Soutb Africa will soon provide one of the most gigantic smashes ever heard of." So writes A. Brittlebank, formerly of Albury, and now of Pretoria, to a friend m Tasmania. Not five per cent, of the companies recently floated, he says, are safe propositions, and the country is overrun with a horde of adventurers and speculators who are exploiting tue alleged resources m a most unscrupulous fashion. Land monopoly is r i fe< "^ ne Oceanic and the African Exploration 'Companies own over one-thiru of the Transvaal. One individual— a Jewowns <3,000,000 acres, and a few others hold the best ox the remainder. "Hooray for Ecapire!" «W" B;itt!ei>auk.
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NZ Truth, Issue 64, 8 September 1906, Page 7
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110SAFRICAN SMASH PREDICTED. NZ Truth, Issue 64, 8 September 1906, Page 7
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