SOUTH AFRICA.
NATIVE PROBLEM. AN M.P.’S OPINION. (by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, Nov. 26. Mr J. Horn, M.P., a member of the Empire Parliamentary delegation, who returned from 'South Africa by the Manuka arriving here yesterday, states that polygamy among the natives will need to be checked if South Africa is to be a white man’s country. The native boy at the age of thirteen or fourteen sets about building a kraal for himself. His next thought is a wife, whom he purchases for a few head of cattle. Then after the second child appears he wants another, and so on with a third. The women and children do all the work in the fields. The growth of population is attended by a cry for more and not. for communal reservations, "hut for individual areas for the natives. Mr Horn said' he believed the natives should .he taken from the towns and segregated in tlieir own country and given the right to secure the title in land. Such a right had been a blessing to the Maoris.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 November 1924, Page 5
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