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Title: South Africa and its future
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of, 1845-1914 Creswicke, Louis
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Publisher: London : T.C. & E.C. Jack
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e addressed by Mr. Chamberlain andLord Peel. Now that peace has come and the camps will havebeen broken up, these women will doubtless find equally usefulemployment under the Education Department in the New Colonies.The Government here have a large reservoir to draw upon inthe women who are employed in the telegraph and postal servicein Great Britain. Any of these persons would immediately find asphere of activity in the new lands. The population of thesecountries is certain to increase rapidly with the opening of the oldmines and the successful exploitation of new. There are largecentres of industry where there is no want of water, where there isa certainty of good mining success, and where communities willgrow up anxious for good schools, and well able to pay for in-structors and instructresses. It is a curious thing that while at the Cape and elsewhere youfind in the hotels plenty of Swiss and German and some Frenchwaitresses and housemaids, you find few English. Why ? It must be 8
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Emigration only from want of organisation. At Grahamstown, not far from thebay called Algoa by the Portuguese (whose thoughts went to Goa inIndia, and named Algoa and Delagoa as calling places for Goaships) there has been an institution for instruction lately founded.Let me cite here the work of the South African Expansion Com-mittee in their own words. This Association is established to promote Protected Emigration, due regardbeing had to the interests both of the Emigrants and of the countries to whichthey go. The Association pledges itself:— (a) To Emigrate only such Women and Girls as are of good character and capacity.(d) To select only such Men and Families as are suitable to the require-ments of each Colony.(c) To secure for them proper Protection on the voyage, and adequateReception on arrival. (d) If possible, not to lose sight of them for a year or two after their Emigration. (e) To raise a Loan Fund for necessitous cases, repayment being secured on detained wages.It is re

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