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Excerpt from The Reconstruction of the New Colonies Under Lord Milner, Vol. 2 of 2 I allow six months for the conversion of the populus, six more months for getting the labour, and think, there fore, that it is reasonable to suppose that by 1904-5 our interrupted development will have once more resumed its natural course, in which case all anxieties about public finance will be a thing of the past. Now, although, as we have seen, the opposition to Chinese labour was greater, and came from more various quarters, than he could have foreseen, yet such was Lord Milner's determination and energy that this forecast of a year ago was almost exactly fulfilled. And four months after the Chinese had begun to arrive we find him describing the changed situation brought about by the importation in terms which show that the natural course of the Transvaal's development had, as a matter of fact, been resumed. The occasion of his speech was the Extraordinary Meeting of the inter-colonial Council convoked at Bloemfontein on 1sth November 1904; and, as the Council had been convened for the express object of despatching railway business, no better passage could be found to exhibit the connection between Chinese labour and the general development of the new colonies. For of all the material agencies employed, Lord Milner relied most upon the improvement and exten sion of the railways; and it is to this subject that the attention of the reader will be mainly directed in the present chapter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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