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Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13294, 24 May 1907, Page 5

A telegram'from Johannesburg of March 29th says: —There has.been a, marked increase in the supply of native labour during the past two months, and there are today more natives wn the Seef than can for she moment be employed. In fact, many natives are soliciting employment which cannot be found for theni, and a moderate estimate places the surplus at tliree thousand. The Robinson Group have been obliged to refuse numbers of " boys" who have been offered them by the.'■ recruiting agent*, and other mines are-similarly situated. Native labour, generally speaking, is plentiful 'after sowing- time and- until about May, when an exodus begins-' of the " boys" working in the mines during the South African summer. ' Various 'special reasons are suggested for the. present influx, which is larger than usual. A troop of "boys" who were recently'trekkinp; towards the Rand, admitted when questioned, that many of them had not left' their kraals since the Trar.