IS THERE SLAVERY?

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 220, 16 September 1924, Page 5

IS THERE SLAVERY?

LEAGUE OF NATIONS ASKS. NATIVES OF AFRICA. AN INQUIRY PROMISED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) GENEVA, September 15. . The committee of the League of Nations Assembly discussed the question jf slavery. Earl Roden and Earl Buxton declared that the British Government would not suggest any limit to the scope of the' proposed inquiry concerning slavery, but could not bu bound in advance to accept the conclusions reached, although they wo:-, i.nine them sympathetically. Hon. (lysbert R. Ilofmoyer de; :.iucd the position in South Africa, aud said that the situation among the natives amounted to nothing more than domestic employment. Some chiefs discharged a number of their people engaged iii that capacity. Mr. Hofmeycr ibelieved- that -nod results would be obtained if the commission of inquiry were established, with sympathetic contact and co-operation between the countries concerned. The committee finally approved the terms of reference of the proposed inquiry.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)