THE TRANSVAAL.
NATIVE LABOUR ON THE RAND. MASS MEETING OF COOLIES. PRETORIA, March 30. Owing to a temporary superabundance of native labour on the Rand, three thousand men are unable to obtain employment, and there are many others waiting to offer their services to the mines. It supposed that the natives have exhausted the large amounts of money which they earned during the Boer war. The President of the Chamber of Mines declares that the situation, which is abnormal, will not continue. A mass meeting of Indian coolies, held at Johannesburg, protested against the Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance, which was re-enacted on the 21st instant by the Transvaal Parliament. The meeting considered the Ordinance unnecessary and degrading, and it was resolved to make an offer to submit to voluntary registration if the offensive requirement embodied in the new law wa3 not insisted upon. If this compromise is refused, the Indians of the Transvaal intend to appeal for Imperial protection.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8390, 2 April 1907, Page 5
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159THE TRANSVAAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8390, 2 April 1907, Page 5
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