SOUTH AFRICA
LABOUR FOR THE RAND, United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 2. Reuter's Pretoria, correspondent states that Mr Smuts, in replying to a Labour deputation, said that the Government was determined to repatriate the Chinese at the earliest possible opportunity, and absorb the unemployed whites. Mr Botha, who was the guest at a dinner given by the Transvaal banking, commercial, and mining interests, in London. declared that the Transvaal Government would not a'tempt to deal with the Labour Question bsfora making drastic inquiry. He desired to see the existing mines continue, and others opened in the near future. Lord Harris hailed Mr Botha s reference to the mines hs a safe investment.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13277, 4 May 1907, Page 5
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