A WARNING.
"A Kent Man," who 'has been 35 years in South Africa," waiting from Capetown to an Auckland resident, says : _ "Speaking, as a mechanic, I wush to warn your readers that South Africa is not .such a happy hunting ground, nor such a land of milk arid honey as people in England are led to believe.' 1 Working men have had to struggle very hard for a bare exists ence. The-cost of the necessities' of life are 30 per cent., and rent 40' per cent, higher than in England. The ; prices of work (have been cut down j to nearly starvation point. There are I no labour organisations, and capitalists have it all their own. way.' Thousands of people have left these shores during the acute depression in trade, flying irom poverty. South Africa is not a white inran's country ;■ there-'is "such a preponderance of blacks who work for starvation wages, and etn-> plovers of labour don't care so long as they get/their work done cheaply.. Artisans get d'rom 3s to 'ss a day; labourers, 2s to 3s a day; and. farmers' boys, Is to 4s a month, with food and shelter, it is impossible for white men; to compete with these irates, and elderly men especially .have a bad time, for there is no old age pension here."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10526, 13 January 1912, Page 4
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220A WARNING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10526, 13 January 1912, Page 4
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