HARSH TREATMENT.
CONQUERED NATIVES. | GERMAN COLONISATION •WE WERE ONLY LABOURERS' CAPKTOW.Y. May 16. ' An interostin™ address iva; delivered at I'mtata by Headman Hosea Kutako trmii South-West Africa. He spoke about tin- war of lIMM-IJHM?. when his people were •oiH)iiere<l by the 'Jermane aii'l tlie haii-li treatment they received from the CmiiHii^. "Thcv took away our cattle a? well as our properties. We were only labourers, even tlie women and children." lie said. The headman spike of the constructive policy of the "jrood Union (rnvern!uient." arid said lie realised that the jAdminiMration was its utmost for tlie natives. He spoke in slowing terms of the educational facilities allowed. He also paid tribute to the British (Jovernment. The feelinjr between the natives and Kuropeans was evidenced, he -aid. by the debates at tlie Native Council. He prai-ed the work done bv the Union (iovernment for natives, particularly in regard to agriculture.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 142, 19 June 1939, Page 7
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