BEER FOR BLACKS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13484, 25 July 1907, Page 5

BEER FOR BLACKS.

OPPOSITION TO THE TRANSVAAL

BILL.

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r Telegraph. — Copyright. ";' (Received July 25, 8.20 a.m.) ._'"■" LONDON, July 24. The Johannesburg correspondent of The Times states that the main object of the Government's Liquor Bill is to attract a larger number of Kaffirs to the Rand mines. The correspondent con|ffifanrshe support of the brewers and a certam number of. smining men is not sufficient to carry the Bill in the face of the growing storm qf opposition.

(The Bill proposes^*) .ajlow beer to be supplied to natives working in the Rand mines. The Nonconformist churches are leading an agitation' against the proposal.)