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Transvaal (Colony). Repatriation Department : Reports and Financial Statements of the Repatriation Department of the Transvaal

(Pretoria: Printed at the Government Printing and Stationery Office, 1906)

330 x 210 mm; wrappers; pp. (viii) + 28, (iv) + 26; tables, incl. folding. Lower cover absent; upper cover silked to inside margin and affixed to spine with archival tape; codes and hand-stamp to edgeworn wrapper; some browning; occasional fox spot. Contents: 1. Report of the Secretary, Transvaal Repatriation Department, and Financial Statement. 2. Report of the Auditor-General of the Transvaal. A survey of the work performed to re-establish normality in the Transvaal following the conclusion of hostlities in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. 'At the declaration of Peace on 31st May, 1902, the whole of the country away from the railway lines had been cleared of everything and was more like a wilderness than a country which should have been supporting some two hundred thousand people. All the farm houses had been laid waste, many of the smaller towns had been destroyed and scarcely a homestead remained intact. The system of "drives" which had been organised by Lord Kitchener had denuded the country of all live stock and supplies. Added to this, the stocks of supplies and merchandise in the hands of merchants and others in the large centres and smaller towns along the railway lines were so limited as to be of very little service in feeding or in any way equipping the large numbers of people whom the Declaration of Peace threw on the hands of the Government.' An uncommon but important compilation of reports: OCLC finds only the British Library copy.

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