SOUTH AFRICA.
r AN IRRIGATION SCHEME
AND INDIAN COOLIES
(Received 8.1 a.m.)
LONDON, July 28,. The South African Loan and War Contribution Bill has been read a seedtime without division. fi y way of rebutting Sir William Harpessimism. Mr Chamberlain said Wat the Transvaal and the Orange jwer Colony were among the most proU^sive^ countries in the world. Nevern.eles3 it would require large sums in l& * future for many of the purposes of development, j . ie Government contemplates a, large Ration scheme, including the , dam--J% of the Vaal River. If the Transhf- not °PP OSe the importation of ] Qlan coolies neither would be. Un--53 any direct Imperial interest were "JWerned he intended to treat the . ran sval as a self-governing colony.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 179, 29 July 1903, Page 5
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