Farming Opportunities in South Africa (1919)

The Department of Agriculture

Description:

Farming Opportunites. [South African Railways & Harbours Administration] Farming Opportunities in the Union of South Africa. Compiled and Published by …in Collaboration with The Department of Agriculture. Johannesburg and London, December, 1919.
Sm. 8vo., 255pp., with copious illustrations and charts; original pictorial wrappers with green linen backing. (a tad mellowed)
Loosely inserted is a one page typed letter from the South African High Commission , Trafalgar Square, addressed to A.C. Painter of Bournemouth, dated 2nd October 1922.accompanying the book and giving general advice. “The minimum capital required for even a modest start is about £ 2,000. …On Government training farms, as explained in the leaflet sent you, the charge is £ 50 a year for board, residence and tuition.
Together with two rare pieces of ephemera.

A) Kanthack (F.E.) Lecture on Land Settlement Conditions in the Union of South Africa and the Settler from Overseas. Deliveredd at the Central Hall, Westminster, on Thursday, 16th October, 1919. HMSO (1919). 8vo., 28pp inc title page, staples a little rusty o/w good.
B.) [Department of Agriculture, Union of South Africa] A Twelve Months’ Course of Training in Practical Farming at A Government Training Farm in South Africa., Objects, Conditions of Admission, Etc. (Union of South Africa, High Commission, London c. 1919).
8vo., 4pp. in good condition.
“ (10) Students will not be permitted to have in their possession or to bring to the farm alcoholic liquors or fire-arms”.

Details:

  • Publisher: South African Railways and Harbours Administration
  • Publisher Place: Johannesburg and London
  • Date of Publication: 1919
  • Edition: (First)
  • Overall Condition: as per description
  • Size: as per description
  • Lot No: 387
  • Hammer Price: $105
  • Bids: 4
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  • Estimate: $120/150
  • Reserve: $85

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