S. AFRICAN NATIVES
LAND BILL OPPOSED.
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association).
CAPETOWN, October 14. An important representative uody ..known as the Joint Council of me Europeans and Natives, which has been sitting for some time to consider Native Bills, has issued a lengthy memorandum, the main feature of which is strong condemnation ol certain clauses of the Land x>ili, which the Commission maintains, will introduce conditions scarcely distinguishable from slavery, and usher in a period of misfortune unparalleled in the history of the country. It, points out that there is no possibility of the natives generally being able to purchase land under me Bill, consequently thousands must remain on farms as labour tenants, or servants, or migrate to town, where their progress is barred by the Colour Bar Act. If they remain on the firms, Boards will sit in each Magisterial district to distribute the labour tenant force among the European proprietors in a manner Which cannot truly be differentiated from slavery.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 October 1926, Page 5
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