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the
children at the higher schools in Kimberley. To assist them, the
Company provides free monthly tickets to and from Kenil-worth via the
Kimberley-Kenilworth tram line.
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village is wholly given up to residences ; there are no stores or shops
of any kind. All supplies come from Kimberley, and by special
arrangement the schoolhouse is used on Sundays for worship and mission
work, and on evenings during the week by the various philanthropic and
social organizations. The village is lighted by a few large arc lamps,
and the houses by paraffin candles and kerosene.
Arrangements are made by which the unmarried men take their meals at the club-house at a cost averaging about 25s. a
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week.
The men come in from their work to dinner, which they take in the
dining rooms of the club ; their breakfast and lunches are sent out to
the depositing floors or other places of work. The breakfast at the
club is like that served at the better class of miners' boarding houses
at Kimberley, consisting of bacon and eggs, chops, or steaks, or other
substantial dish, bread and
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