AFRICA'S COLOUR LINE.
SUBSIDY FOR WHITE LABOUR. PERIOD OF THREE YEARS. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CAPETOWN, Nov. 6. South African municipalities willing to employ white labour to the extent jof 20 per cent., of the total of coloured workers in their service are to be subsidised bv the Government. The subsidy is to be spread over a period of three years and will amount for the first year to 50 per cent, of the difference in the wages paid to natives and the wages paid to whites, with 3s a day as a basis for natives and 6s for Europeans. For the second year the subsidy will be 35 per cent, of this difference and for the third year 20 per cent. Durban is already proposing to engage fIOO additional white labourers in permanent employ to take advantage of the subsidy, despite the fact that after the .specified three years the rearrangement will involve the corporation in an additional annual expenditure of about £40,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21069, 31 December 1931, Page 3
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