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 212 THE BRITISH EMPIRE :~UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA.

management of the railways, ports, and harbours. There is a Railway and Harbour Fund for the Union and into it are paid revenues from the admini- stration of railways, ports, and harbours, and such Fund is appro- priated by Parliament. Into a Consolidated Revenue Fund is paid all other money received for the purposes of the Union. On this fund the in- terest on debts of the colonies forms a first charge. To the Union has been transferred the public property, real and personal, of the colonies.

The English and Dutch languages are both official. The administration of native affairs and affairs specially or differentially affecting Asiatics vests ill the Governor-General-in-Council. It is provided that the British South Africa Co.'s territories may be received into the Union, and the government of native territories may be transferred to the Union Government.

High Commissioner in London. — Sir E. Walton.

Area and Population.

The total area of the Union is 473,096 square miles divided between the Provinces as follows :— Cape of Good Hope, 276,966; Natal, 35,291 ; Trans- vaal, 110,450 ; Orange Free State, 50,389.

The census taken in 1904 in each of the four Colonics which subsequently (in 1910) were incorporated in the Union was the first simultaneous census taken in South Africa. While comparisons are possible in respect of the numbers of the population of separate Provinces for earlier periods than 1904, full comparison is only possible in respect of the whole area of the Union for the years 1904 and 1911 — the latter being the year in which the first Union census was taken ; and for the year 1918 as to the European population only.

The following tables give the returns of population at the various censuses, classified according to race and sex : —

Year

All Race?

White

Coloured

■■ Total

.-),175,S24 5,973,394

White

1,116,806 1,276,242

Coloured

4,059,018 4,697,152

Males

635,117 685,164 728,866

Females

Males Female.-.

1904 . . 1911 . . . 1918 ..

481,689

591,078

2,047,118 2,011,900 2,384,228 2,812,924

Estimated Population, 1920: White, 1,504.000; coloured, 5,801,000 Total, 7,305,000.

Of the coloured population in 1911, 4,019,006 were Bantu, 152,309 Asiatic, and 525,837 of other races.

Principal towns (inoluding suburbs) in the Union classified according to the number of inhabitants of white race, 1911 and 1918 : —

Province

r .filiation, 1811

Population,

White

Coloured

Total

i g 1 6

White

Over 20,000—

1. Johannesburg

2. CapeTovrn

3. Durban.

4. Pretoria.

5. Fort Elizabeth

Transvaal Cape Natal. Transvaal Cap*

119,953

85,44'.' 34,880 85,942 20,007

117,151 76,187 -.lis 81,78S IV, 050

161,759

57,674 37,0ti3

137,lfli>

4S, 113

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