SOUTH AFRICA.

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 June 1921, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA.

NATIVES AND RELIGION.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

CAPETOWN, June 27.

The acting Premier announced in the course of a debate on the native churches in the Union, and concem-in-r how far they are associated with the natives’ political propaganda, that there are no less than one hundred and six native denominations. These are entirely under native contiol. e added that the Government was now instituting an inquiry into the Bulhoek affair, and the origin of the Israelite movement. CENSUS AND RATS. Recd 9 a.m CAPETOWN, June 28. Preliminary results of the census show the European population of the Union as 1,523,424. Owing to the discovery that wild rodents are affected with plague, and that there is a danger of the disease becoming an endemic, the Government is organising a national rat campaign. COLOURED LABOUR. Recd H a.m. CAPETOWN, June 28. Speaking in the Chamber of Mines, Johannesburg, the chairman, referring to Labour objections to the importation of tropical Natives as contrary to the ideal of a “white South Africa,” the preventing of the substitution oT white unskilled labour for black, said that such substitution would mean the addition to the wages bill of twenty millions yearly, whereas the total working profit of all the mines last year was 111 millions. In other words, such a change would instantly destroy the whole industry.