JOHANNESBURG’S RAPID RISE.
•Mr Johann Rissik, who gave his name to Johannesburg at its foundation less than forty years ago, recently died. Mr Rissik was Surveyor-General for the Transvaal Republic when gold was found on the Rand, and the rush of gold-seekers and so it fell to him to mark out the' site of the city. That was in 1886. The next year there were already 3000 citizens, and three years later these had become 25,000. In 1896 there were over 100,000, and only two years later 180,000. To-day there are about 300,000, and Johannesburg is the largest African town south of 'Cairo.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 January 1926, Page 9
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103JOHANNESBURG’S RAPID RISE. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 January 1926, Page 9
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