THE DEPRESSION IN SOUTH AFRICA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 32, 28 January 1908, Page 4

THE DEPRESSION IN SOUTH AFRICA

A .\LU ZEALAADLU's VlliW .■;,

Air. Tied. Xown-euu, formerly Alavor ot Miranur, who lias returucd ulter'au extended trip through Britain and Lulope, ha= sometmiig interesting io -av regarumg South Anita, where lie made a long stay. The visitors is convinced things are very bad there, from Capetown to the north. There i- a raise level, as a result of the heave wonev expenditures during the Augio-JJocr war. ana at the present time the whole thing is ouilt up or " boom. : ' Alany enquiries weie niaue of him as to -New Zealand, and he vvi-hed to sav that he louud the proclaiuailou ol our country as a .Dominion had caused great interest in loulh Airica.

! -the depression was .specially pro- | Uotuieed ai Jouanuesburg, and lie found deep complaint made by tue people abuut the introduction of Cuinese labour tu the mints. The spending power oi the community »us curtailed by this stop, tur natural!) there was a lessened flow ul money to liiu t.j\vii. It was (juite true that the wurK ol ike mines could ue done v.itliuut the Chinese. Cienerui ifrakiiit, wiiu took an active part in the war, i 3 now lurniuig at hast Loudon, South Airiea. lie e.\prc«ed to .Mr. Tuwuscud a desire lu have a lew New Zealand agriculturalist, settled around ., «*.,*# As an instance ot tile ' bouui " prices ol Johannesburg, Air. Touiicend mentioned that sonic young men he knew oi were bachelurising in a live-iooiucd house at that city. The rem was JtiO a mouth. When the depression came the landlord reduced the rent to £l2 a month. Keats are spoken of a<= dear jn Wellington, but the house, in uuestiou eouid have been got here lor £G a month. Aiany South Africans were meditating emigration to -\e\v Zealand, and ilr. iowuseud ueneved that emigrant- irom Ureal Uritain could be attracted licit in :uudi greater numbers if advertising on the attractive linets adopted by Canada and the Argentine were adopted hi .New Zealand. One method that attracted his aiieuliun was the showing ol a big wiuuuw' oi sample- of son ol dilicrcui colour, ochind which were placed poiatoc; wheat, oale, or otiier product suitable lor culiivatiou in 111. se particular soil-. A placaid would sav that there were -, many thousands ul acres oi this son in ,uch a locality, and it was tu be obtained at isucu "a price (always small;, and that it could I--- made to produce the yields stated (f me products exhibited.