SOUTH AFRICA TO COLONIZE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sad:,--Mr. Barnes, Miss (2) Roberts and others in their letter under the above heading .make the extraordinary statement, that the farmer settler, who is often an ex-officer, is ephemeral and to be classed with the tourist as an influence on the
country. Since the War some thousands of these men have taken up farms ; doubtless, as always happens, a percentage have found the life uncongenial and thrown their hands in ; doubtless, also, those who held on arc now hard put to it to make ends meet, a state of affairs which unfortunately applies to most farmers in South Africa and elsewhere : the majority, however, are permanently established on the land, many of them in settlements such as those on the Sundays River, Fish River, White River, &c. Their children arc growing up as South Africans ; in due time they are bound to exercise a strong influence on the future of the country.—I am. Sir, &c.,
E. P. YEATES (Major).
St. Andrews, Warminster,
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