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SECTIONAL TRANSACTIONS.— E, F. 



sufficiently subject to ocean influences for the term continental climate to be mis- 

 leading as applied to the mass of the eastern section. 



Viewed in the greater detail required for the regional analysis of a continent there 

 are obviously important differences between the climates of e.g. DubUn and Moscow. 

 It is doubtful, however, whether the points of difference stressed by climatologists 

 should be given the same relative importance by the geographer. 



Since, however, the boundaries drawn by climatologists between the eastern and 

 western European sub-types are usually quite arbitrary, even where a transition zone 

 is inserted, a door seems left open for an examination of the subject from another 

 angle. A study of the two sub-types where these are fully developed, and of their 

 more important direct and indirect influences on man, should also throw light on the 

 problem of the transition area between them, especially if less attention is paid to 

 normals and more to variability from year to year. 



Prof. J. H. Wellington. — The Vaal- Limpopo Watershed. 



Dr. Vaughan Cornish.— T/ie Scenery of the Cape Peninsula. 



SECTION F. 

 ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND STATISTICS. 



CAPE TOWN. 



Prof. E. Leslie. 



Tuesday, July 23. 



-Coloured Labour and Trade Unionism in Cape Town. 



European trade union leaders in Cape Town have constantly opposed any colour 

 bar within the local unions, as they saw that their bargaining power, except in 

 engineering, would be very small unless the coloured members were included. Thus 

 the skilled coloured mun has, at the moment, a strong position in the unions. 



Trades in which Appbenticbship Committees exist. 



Other unions in which there is a large percentage of coloured members are : 

 baking, 80 ; biscuit making and packing, 60 ; garment workers, 80. There are two 

 registered unions which are essentially coloured — dock workers and laundry workers — 

 though the latter has four or five white members. 



European boys show no unwillingness to enter trades in which there is a high 

 percentage of coloured workers. European girls disUke the idea of working alongside 

 coloured girls. Difference of attitude towards coloured workers is also shown by a 



