DROUGHT IN AFRICA.
NATIVES IN GREAT DISTRESS. ABANDONMENT OF CHILDREN. WHITE SETTLERS SUFFERING. .) (By Came. —Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 10.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, November 27. "l A prolonged drought over an area of i, 16.000 square miles at Xamiiquiiland is g causing appalling distress among the c natives. Many children have been abandoned by n their parents and left in the luiiuls of i- school masters. White settlers are suffering severely.— o (Renter.) d | | Nnmaqualand is n region north of Cape 1 Colony extending from the Orange River Ito Damnraliind. It belonged to (iermanv : from 18S5 to the Croat War. It com- : prises about 4(10,000 square miles, arid |is sterile and barren. Tlie N'aniuqlias | are a tribe of Hottentots primitive in i their habits. The number of a man's I wives depends on his ability to buy them I from tlie parents, by permission of tlio \ chiefs. t'
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 283, 28 November 1924, Page 5
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