SLAVERY
DECISION BY LEAGUE
ENQUIRY TO BE MADE
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Received Sept. 16, 11.45 a.m. GENEVA, Sept. 15. ihe committee of the League of Nations Assembly discussed the question of slavery. Mr Roden Buxton declared that the British Government would not suggest any limit to'the scope of the proposed enquiry concerning slavery, but could not he hound in advance, to accept the conclusions reached, although it would examine them sympathetically. . Mr Hofmeyer described the position in South Africa, and said the situation among the natives amounted to nothing more than domestic employment. Some chiefs had discharged a number of their people engaged in capacity. Mr Hofmeyer believed that good results would he obtained if a commission of enquiry were' established with sympathetic contact and co-operation between the countries concerned. '
The committee finally approved of the terms of reference for the proposed enquiry.—Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 September 1924, Page 9
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