THE TRANSVAAL.
CHINESE LABOUR PROBLEM. (Received March 21, 0.39 a.m.) LONDON, March 19. Major Karri Davis, in a letter in the Times. declares that the employment of Chinese labour is the only ■way of assisting the mining industry in the Transvaal. White labour would render half of the mines unprofitable, and reduce the profits of the rest forty per cent. Besides this the whites refused to work alongside of blacks. ' Ho deplored Messrs Deafcin ami Seddon's interference, and Stated that it was incorrect for Mr Deakin to say the war was a miners' iwnr. It wns really fought to settle (Whether Soutli Africa should be govBrned by the British or the Boers. The Commonwealth interference was already affecting the friendly sentiment in South Africa very seriously, imperilling the growing trade between the two countries. It would be .Well the writer says, if Mr Deakin .Would accept the advice of his fel-low-Australians and mind his own business.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 65, 21 March 1904, Page 3
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156THE TRANSVAAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 65, 21 March 1904, Page 3
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