DOMESTIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

Transcribed from South Africa Magazine 3 January 1920

BIRTHS

BARNATO—On December 3, at Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A., to Mr. and Mrs. Woolf BARNATO, of “Kingsmead,” Elsworthy Road, N.W. 3, a daughter.

BAYLIS—On November 12, at Durban, to Mr. and Mrs. L. G. C. BAYLIS, a son.

BENNEE—On December 15, at Durban, to Dr. and Mrs. A. J. BENNEE, a son.

BOWIE—On November 18, at Springs, Transvaal, the wife of John Simpson BOWIE, architect, a son.

BYRON—On December 17, at Malvern, Natal, the wife of Captain Lewis BYRON, M.P.C., a daughter.

CLEWLOW—On November 15, at Bloemfontein, to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. CLEWLOW, a daughter.

EVANS—On November 22, at Cape Town, the wife of C. F. EVANS, a daughter.

EWING—On November 19, at Brakpan Power Station, to Mr. and Mrs. Loftus EWING, a daughter.

GIBBONS—On December 23^rd, at Kensington, the wife of Captain C. C. GIBBONS (grandson of the late John HAYTON, Esq., of Grahamstown), of a daughter.

HUNTLEY—On November 14, at Malvern, to Mr. and Mrs. H. B. HUNTLEY, a son.

WATSON—On November 21, at Walvis Bay, to Mr. and Mrs. Willie WATSON, a daughter.

WILSON—On December 6, at Morogoro, the wife of J. J. Vernon WILSON, District Political Officer, Morogoro, East Africa, a son.

MARRIAGES

BECK-BECK—On November 18, at Tulbagh, Captain Frank BECK, R.E., A.M.I.C.E., of Bloemfontein, to Joan, daughter of the late Hon. Sir Meiring BECK and Lady BECK.

FAURE-FOSTER—On December 1, at Wynberg, James John FAURE to Winifred FOSTER.

THEUNISSEN-HANBURY-KING—On November 4, at Durban, Leonard Bernard THEUNNISEN to Marjorie Ellen HANBURY-KING.

WALDOCK-SCOTT—On December 2, at Cape Town, Charles WALDOCK to Ruby SCOTT.

DEATHS

BALL—On December 1, at Wynberg, Eliza, widow of Captain W. BALL, in her 96^th year.

BARNATO—On December 11, at Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A., Jacqueline, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Woolf BARNATO, of London, England, aged 8 days.

FIFE—On December 20, John FIFE, Master Mariner, of Bermondsey, aged 73.

GALLETLY—On November 13, at Durban, Agnes, widow of David GALLETLY.

HALLOWELL—On November 19, at Nigel, Thomas HALLOWELL, aged 36.

HAZELL—On December 1, at Mossel Bay, Dr. Frederick HAZELL, in his 60^th year.

JACKSON, Robert (Bobbie)—On December 27^th, at Bournemouth, aged 58. African papers, please copy.

MUIR—On November 17, at Burnside, Natal, David MUIR, aged 48.

NIMMO—On November 12, at Nairobi, Stuart Milne, wife of Johnston NIMMO.

CALLAGHAN—On December 1, at the International Hotel, Cape Town, William Thomas O’CALLAGHAN, in his 75^th year.

STANSELL—On November 15, at Greenwood Park, John Henry STANSELL, aged 56.

THORSEN—On November 16, at Durban, Ellen, wife of Wilfrid THORSEN, aged 21.

Miscellaneous articles on the same page:

“SOUTH AFRICA,” twenty-five years ago - Jan. 5, 1895

Mr. Rhodes made a P.C.

Kruger’s speech on Swaziland.

The Wilson Memorial at Fochabers.

Captain Oats’s address at St. Just.

A peep at the Purple Islands, No. 111.

Mr. Selous on South African big game.

Mr. A. L. Lawley on the Beira Railway.

The Transvaal Mortgage Company, Limited.

Sketch and portrait of Mr. John Noble, C.M.G.

No. 11 of the Rand Record, a supplement to South Africa.

Mr. Rhodes has been presented to the Sultan of Turkey.

Prospectus of the South-West Africa Company, Limited.

What Mr. D. J. Pullinger said about the Buffelsdoorn Company.

“Prince Cetewayo” fined 5s. for being drunk and disorderly in Manchester.

Plan of the property of the African Gold Concessions and Development Company, Limited.

UNITED KINGDOOM MANUFACTURERS.

With reference to a recent announcement regarding a proposed representative organization in South Africa to look after the interests of United Kingdom manufacturers, and to bring their representatives together. H. M. Senior Trade Commissioner in South Africa, Mr. W. G. Wickham, has cabled that the Association has now been formed. The subscription is two guineas, and United Kingdom manufacturers interested should instruct their South African representatives to make application for membership to Mr. Wickham (P. O. Box 839, Johannesburg).

The wife of Mr. D. J. Dippenaar, of Overberg, in the Graaff-Reinet district, recently gave birth to three boys and one girl. The quadruplets were reported to be all fine children and doing well.

The death took place at Pretoria recently of Mr. James O’Reilly, in his 65^th year. Mr. O’Reilly carried on business in Graaff-Reinet for many years, and arrived in Pretoria four years ago. Major T. L. O’Reilly, O.B.E., who died from pneumonic influenza in Cape Town, was his eldest son.

Mr. C. Forrest RIGG, J.P., of Bonnie Vale, is reported to have sold to a South African company property a million or more acres in extent on the north bank of the Orange River, in the South-West Protectorate, which he acquired from a British company during his visit to England shortly before the war.

It was recently reported to the police at Wessel’s Nek that a native girl had been buried without the necessary report of her death having first been made. The body was exhumed, and a post mortem held by the District Surgeon, who reported that in his opinion the deceased girl had been flogged so severely that she had died from injuries inflicted.

DIAMOND FIELDS

DE BEERS AND ITS NATIVES

The “short statement” submitted by Mr. Dickinson, the General Manager of De Beers, to the Low-Grade Mines Commission at Johannesburg, is to hand by the mail, and throws interesting light upon labour conditions at the Great Kimberley diamond mine, where it is clear, the native finds himself very comfortably circumstanced. There is no legal bar in the Cape Province; but the relative spheres of employment of Whites and natives in De BEERS mines do not differ from those obtaining in the mines on the Rand. The White employee carries out all the duties of the White underground worker—just as in the Transvaal—while the native worker does all the manual labour and carries no responsibility regarding the safety of the operations. The Company has only two recruiting agents—one in Bechuanaland on a salaried basis, and one in Basutoland, on a capitation basis. About 60 per cent of the natives employed come voluntarily to the mine. It is usual for the boys to sign agreements either for four or six months’ service, the latter agreement carrying better conditions. Generally speaking the supply of natives is adequate—at present 11,000 natives are employed which is slightly under the normal The close compound system prevails for the purpose of coping with the illicit diamond traffic. The Company does not feed its boys, and the average earning is 3s. 5d. a shift, but some boys receive as much as 6s 6d. or 7s. 6d. per shift. All work is done under White supervision. Though there is no legal colour bar there has grown up a practical colour bar, and there is no likelihood of there being any attempt to infringe on the White man’s sphere.

Mr. Dickinson could offer no explanation as to why, while in the Transvaal there was a legal colour bar and the natives agitated for its removal, there was no agitation in Kimberley for the removal of the effective colour bar. The mine, said Mr. Dickinson, was in a comfortable position. It did not compare with a low-grade mine, and the question of profit was really one of sales. He could not contemplate the day when such a position as was occupied by a low-grade mine would hold good at Kimberley. Under the closed compound system goods were being sold to the natives at pre-war rates, while rates in other stores had increased largely. The mine spent from £12,000 to £15,000 annually in bonuses to natives who found diamonds, and that was a great attraction to natives to work at the mine. The natives in Kimberley had not asked for a higher status, nor had there been a demand by them to do semi-skilled work. The average pay in Kimberley was higher than on the Rand. For the time of their contract the natives were always in mining areas; the boys on the Rand obviously had more freedom. A 46-hour week is in operation, on the face to face principle.

The death has occurred of Mr. F. Z. S. PEREGRINO, a well-known member of the coloured community, in whose interests he conducted a weekly paper, The Spectator.

Dr. Arnold, formerly Medical Officer of Health for the Union, has purchased the farm in the Mara district, on the borders of Rhodesia of Colonel FERREIRA, C.M.G., who has bought a smaller farm adjoining his old homestead.

Dr. David Melville, M.D., M.C.H, who died at the Boksburg Hospital at the age of 38 years, succeeded the late Dr. Miller, taking charge of the E.R.P.M. Native Hospital in 1918. Dr. Melville had served in East Africa with the South African Medical Corps, and there contracted malaria. In December last deceased was admitted to the Boksburg Hospital suffering from a form of paralysis, from which he never recovered.

Regards,

Ellen Stanton

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