South
African College, Cape Town, or at similar colleges at Grahamstown and
Stellenbosch, the third year at Kimberley, and the fourth at
Johannesburg. The object of the school is to train young men in South
Africa as mining engineers. Suitable buildings were erected at
Kimberley at a cost of £9000, De Beers
contributing on the pound for pound principle with the Educational
Department of the Colony. There were twenty students in attendance
during the year 1901. De Beers mines and workshops are open to the
students, where they are given practical instruction in mining and
mechanical engineering. Their theoretical training is under the
supervision of Professor J. G. Lawn, assisted by Professor Orr. The
management of the school is entrusted to a local committee, consisting
of the four members of Parliament representing the Kimberley district,
the member of the Legislative Council for Griqualand West, the
Inspector of Mines, the Mayors of Kimberley and Beaconsfield, the
Chairman of the Public Schools Committee, and myself. I have the honor
of being chairman of this committee.
There are six distinct church establishments in Kimberley, — the Anglican, Presbyterian, Baptist, Roman Catholic, Wes-
