S. AFRICAN BILLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 102, 2 May 1935, Page 7

S. AFRICAN BILLS.

Basis for Settlement of Native

Problem

ADDITIONAL RESERVES

CAPETOWN, May 1

After nine years of consideration the Joint Select Committee of the Union Parliament has produced two bills as the basis for a settlement of the native problem.

Tho Representation Bill would prohibit tho further registration of natives as Parliamentary voters, but would give tho natives of the whole of the Union tho right to elect, through electoral colleges, four European Senators and two members of the Cape Provincial Council, for which natives would be eligible.

A natives' representative council for the Union would be constituted to consider all legislation affecting them. Chiefs would be entitled to votes corresponding with the strength of their tribes.

The Native Trust and Land Bill proposes to allocate for native occupation an additional 15,000,000 acres of land over and above the 20,000,000 acres which form the existing native reserves. The lands would be merged in a native trust and funds would be allocated for the development of native territories and advancing native interests.