WHITE POPULATION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 November 1924, Page 5

WHITE POPULATION.

POSITION IN SOUTH AFRICA

DANGER OF DISAPPEARING

r Capetown correspondent of the A.°ndon limes telegrapehd op October , , re P? rt of the Census Director, which has just been issued, is an ommious document from the standpoint of white survival in South Africa. Mr Cousins, the Census Director, now for Labour, insists on tiie increase of the non-white popular tion in the Union, as compared with the white, m spite of the .fact that in the influenza epidemic of 1918 500,000 hfthlrto dl€d ~ a faet not published Mr Cousins’ conclusion is that the Euiopean race can only hold its own numeiically in South Africa bv seek" mg accessions from abroad. ’Failing this, it must for ever abandon the prospect of maintaining a white civilisation except as a proportionately diminishing minority in face of an increasing and ultimately overwhelming majority. It may then be forced to abandon its domination or even abandon the country. It may accept the solution of degeneracy by perpetuating a Eur-Afncan (hybrid European, and African) civilisation. In 30 years. -on the present figures, the whites in bouth Africa will number 4,500,000, the Bantu will have increased by 13,000,000. Acceptance of a EurAfrican solution would involve the dishonouring of the racial ideals tenaciously held by the white races. The alternative is for the whites to take timely measure to ensure that in population the progression of the whites shall not be left behind by accepting the obligation to provide' here a home for the surplus population of Europe. The application of these home truths is obvious, since both' Nationalists and Labour, which compose the present Government, have set rigid faces for years against any comprehensive scheme for bringing in immigrants from abroad.

•The Times’ Johanneseburg correspondent telegraphs: The outstanding feature of the speeches at the opening of the Nationalist Party Congress at Pretoria was the threat to the Rand made by Mr Tielman Roos, Minister of Justice. He said: “The mines have been approached by members of the Government, and were not prepared to do anything in the way of taking on more white people. Do thev wqnt a law to say what shall lie the ration between white and black labour on the mines? If they force us to do it we shall do so.” It is pointed out in mining circles that it is the mining industry which is always singled out for attacks of this nature, though no industry in the country has provided so much additional employment for Europeans during the last 12 months as the gold mines.