HELPED BY THE MINES
SOUTH AFRICAN FARMERS
Writing to a friend in Wellington, a resident in Johannesburg remarks: — “On the whole the farmers out here are well looked "after, the Government steps in and helps them when they have a poor season, and the Government has decreed that farm bonds .shall bear only 5 per cent, whereof the. Government, pays H per cent and the farmer .'ll per cent, so that they (the farmers) have plenty of money for motor-cars and other luxuries; moreover, the export; subsidy on wool, grain, and fruit amounts to upwards of £11,000,000 a year. “Of all this expenditure the mines have to pay practically everything and also the burden of a vastly overgrown and inefficient Civil Service, the taxation on the mines amounting to quite half the total revenue of the t'nion.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18597, 7 January 1935, Page 11
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