COLOUR QUESTIONS
SOUTH AFRICAN BILLS
UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENT
RIFT IN CABINET
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. (Received February 18, 1.15 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, February 17. An unexpected Cabinet rift has arisen over the introduction of private Bills prohibiting mixed marriages and the employment of Europeans by Asiatics and barring European women who have been married to non-Euro-peans inheriting property. In anticipation of the General Election, the Opposition is blazing the colour question on ■ the backveldt, which is alarmed at the .rejection in Parliament of the mixed marriages Bill as retrogressive and unnecessary.
The Assembly was astonished by the Premier's acceptance of a motion to refer the other Bills to a select committee, whereupon Mr. G. H. Hofmeyr, professing to speak for the Government, declined to promise time to discuss the committee's report.
The Premier tartly secured an adjournment of the debate.
While it is expected that the difficulty will be composed, at present it is inevitable that the two schools of thought which are roughly representative of the Transvaal and the Cape will force the issue ultimately.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1937, Page 9
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177COLOUR QUESTIONS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1937, Page 9
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