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Natal had already entered upon its long struggle to improve the port of Durban , and , by lowering its customs dues , to compete with the Cape ports . In 1876 a State railway was begun to connect Durban with Pietermaritzburg ...
Natal had already entered upon its long struggle to improve the port of Durban , and , by lowering its customs dues , to compete with the Cape ports . In 1876 a State railway was begun to connect Durban with Pietermaritzburg ...
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diversion of the traffic benefited the Transvaal revenue , for the Central South African Railway owned 85 per cent of the railway from Lourenço Marques to Johannesburg as against 36-4 per cent of that from Durban and 55 per cent of the ...
diversion of the traffic benefited the Transvaal revenue , for the Central South African Railway owned 85 per cent of the railway from Lourenço Marques to Johannesburg as against 36-4 per cent of that from Durban and 55 per cent of the ...
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Railway construction from Durban was begun by the Natal Government in 1876 to serve the new sugar estates by coast lines . The sugar industry was by then about twenty - five years old . It had been begun perhaps in 1850 by a new settler ...
Railway construction from Durban was begun by the Natal Government in 1876 to serve the new sugar estates by coast lines . The sugar industry was by then about twenty - five years old . It had been begun perhaps in 1850 by a new settler ...
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Smutss offer to S Rhodesia 1921 | 4 |
Southern African Rivers | 7 |
Copyright | |
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