Rand Pioneers

Brown cloth boards with golden gilt titles to the front. 117 pages. 21 illustrations. Index. List of members (15 pages)

Dealing with the issues such as membership, deaths, finances. The Native Question: native land tenures, travelling on railways, Coloured people on Johannesburg Electric Trams, natives and dissolute white women, natives on footpaths, native unrest, illicit liquor traffic, location at Klipspruit. Imperial veto on Native Affairs. Chinese labourers on mines...

22 pages of biographical notes of Pioneers who passed away: William Holsworth, Robert Cumming, Ernest Dowling, Thomas Thorpe, William Rogers, H D Solomon, Herbert Tanner, James Hay, Major William Goddard, Albert Jacobs, Alfred, Beit, William Hollard and George Rideal.