AFRICAN NATIVES

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 85, 4 January 1940, Page 8

AFRICAN NATIVES

Desire To Help Defend Empire (British Official Wireless.) (Received January 3, 7 p.m.) RUGBY, January 2. The anxiety of native peoples to participate in the defence of South Africa was expressed at a recent meeting in Pretoria of the Natives Representative Council, the most important organ of native opinion in the Union. During the meeting one delegate summed up the position as follows: ‘‘.Since war broke out every African organization that lias held a meeting has expressed its unswerving devotion to the King and his Government in the Union. An account recently appeared in the Press of how native employees of a big concern in Transvaal have started a fund to buy a warship for Britain, and this, I am convinced, is typical of what people throughout the Union are feeling.”