SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS

Evening Star, Issue 18809, 6 December 1924, Page 2

SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS

PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATORS. CAPE TOWN, November 24. An extraordinary noeition has arisen regarding the operation of the provincial system. One of the Ministers, Mr has repeatedly contended that the provincial administrators should have resigned when the Hertzog Government look office. In a speech at Johannesburg on Saturday Mr Roos declared that these officials bitterly opposed the policy of the Government, which it was their duty to carry out. The Government could not continue to be baulked by these people, whose only course wa« to resign. The Transvaal Administrator, Mr Hofmeyer, has intimated to_ Mr Hertzog hi* willingness to resign if Mr Hertzog’a views have changed since hie declaration in Parliament on August 1, Mr Hertzog assured Mr Hofmeyer that his view* were unaltered. Mr Hofmeyer will therefore continue in office. Mr Hertzog on August 1 said he did not admit that the post of administrator was a political one. While an Admin is-tnu-vr should enter t l ’ l ' cnffidence of the majority in his province, there was not necessarily a connection between hia party views and thoee of the Government of the day, however desirable sometimes for practical purposes.—Reuter.