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under contracts made at the beginning of the year, to work on shares. This system might have done well for the year after the surrender, but as a system (permanent) it will not do. This year in a majority of cases - it is a complete failure. If the freedpeople had been paid even small wages with their board monthly - (which could have & would have been done - for money could have been advanced much better than goods at from 25 to 100 per cent of a profit) they would at the end of the year, have something ahead.

Destitution
At present there is no destitution, actual destitution in the sub district;