NATION-BUILDING.
: / SOUTH AFRICAN UNION. CONVENTION.COMPLETELY AOREED. '"COMPROMISE RE"CAPITAL;' (31 TZtEGBAFH—rUESS ASSOCIATION—COPTHIOIIT.) / •: Durban, February 2. ,The tension at the: South African Closer Union Convention with regard to the capital city question continues.' Several of tho delegates threaten to leave for-their homes'. .'. Neither .thie Transvaal;'nor ,Cape' Colony is;prepared--.to give.- way,' and /'the main chance for a ; successful;conclusion'seems to be , a : compromisej Capetown / becoming the legislative capital,- with the Federal ; Parliament', sitting there; Pretoria, the' administrative capital, - with/Civil Service headquarters; and Bloemfontein the headquarters;.of: the judiciary.:;;. . ::./.'.'; ;..:■;',. : :'■.; ,-.-.'. ; .-'■'.,-.- ;:,-..
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 423, 4 February 1909, Page 5
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83NATION-BUILDING. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 423, 4 February 1909, Page 5
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