Johannesburg, in South Africa, is making arrangements to celebrate Ihe first fifty year." of its existence by holding an Empire Exhibition to commence in September of this year. Fifty years ago it was merely a collection of huts. To-day it is a city of skyscrapers, with n population, white and coloured, of 309.000. During the Inst half-century n ore limn £1,000.000.000 worth of gold bus been recovered from reefs in the vicinity, mid. thunks to the price of gold to-day, the production is possibly greater than ever. Johannesburg has a cathedral which cost £lOO,OOO, and one of the largest city halls in the world.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 149, 19 March 1936, Page 2
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