SOUTH AFRICA

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 June 1924, Page 7

SOUTH AFRICA

LATEST ELECTION RETURNS. TEN SEATS IN DOUBT. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received June 20, 11.40 a.m. CAPETOWN, June 19. The State of parties is:— South African Party 51 Labour 18 Nationalists 55 Independent 1 The South African Party gained five seats, Labour eight, me ”*N ationalists 13, and the Independents 1. There are still ten seats for which the returns are incomplete, of which four are expected to go to the South Africans and six to the Nationalists. Mr Burton, Minister for Finance, was defeated.— Reuter. THE PREFERENCE QUESTION. Received June 20, 12.35 p.m. CAPETOWN,. June 19. The defeat of the preference resolutions in the British Parliament has caused great disappointment, and it is almost certain to be seized on by the new Government as a pretext for abolishing British preference in the South African Union. Such preference has always been opposed by Mr. Hertzog’s party, and now that the Hertzog Government is a certainty, the whole press evpress congratulations and express the hope that all parties will help the new Government. —Reuter. HOPES OF GENER AL SMUTS. Received June 20, 12.35 p.m. CAPETOWN, June 19. A feature of the elections is the landslide to the pact in the Transvaal. In the Cape and Natal provinces the Government fully held its own. General Smuts, in a message, gives expression to the hope that he will still continue to lead the party.— Reuter.