- ZA HPRA A1-D-Dk
- Deelreeks
- 1931 - 1933
Part of Papers of Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr
Correspondents: C.W. Connell, C.W.A. Coulter, R. Currie, J.S. Dunn, G. Foster, J.H. Hofmeyr, A.A. Hope. W.H. Hutt, E. Knight, W.M. Martin, C. Meeser, R.S. Mennie, J.A. Neser, L.S. Raymond, W. Southey, A. van Eyssen, J. Weil, S. Williams.
Subjects:
1931 Trend of commodity gold prices.
1931 Evidence of Low Grade Ore Commission.
1931 Gold in relation to industrial prosperity.
1931 Price stabilising policy of the British government.
1931 Theory that European and American depression due to loss of Eastern trade markets.
1931 Need for an index of real values.
1932 Question of South Africa remaining on the gold standard " Possibility of Hofmeyr resigning over the gold issue.
1932 Problem of remedying capital shortage.
1932 Desperate plight of farming community.
1933 Question of the mining industry being allowed to retain gold premium, which resulted from South Africa leaving the gold standard.
1933 The gold premium and mining taxation.
1933 Reaction to the Gold Mines Excess Profits Duty Bill.
1933 Necessity to lower mine taxation to allow for capital development.
Includes Report of the proceedings at a general meeting of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines on the gold standard, 1931 (13 pages) and statement by the Gold Producers Committee, 1932 (24 pages).