THE POSSIBILITIES AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE 

 COASTAL BELT OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



By T. George Caink, ALInst.M.&Cy.E. 

 With I Map. 



Read July lO, 19 19. 



At present in South Africa there are two comparatively 

 small areas producing a large proportion of the wealth of the 

 country. These are the two areas situated around Kimberley 

 and Johannesburg, and the wealth-producing capacity of these 

 two areas is due to Nature having provided the one area with 

 diamonds and the other with gold. The diamond and gold in 

 each is potential wealth only, and is converted into actual wealth 

 by development. Nature has been equally generous to the 

 coastal area by providing it with great potential wealth in a 

 belt of heavv rainfall, at a considerable elevation above sea level, 



PSOrtC.TOqATE 



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Map showing places in Coastal Belt where rainfall exceeds 40 inches. 



