RACIAL PROBLEM.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 242, 17 October 1921, Page 5

RACIAL PROBLEM.

SITUATION IN SOUTH AFRICA. HERTZOG SUGGESTS SEGREGATION. (Received 17, 9.30 a.m.) Capetown Oct. 15. i Outlining the party’s policy at the Nationalist Congress, in Bloemfontein, Hcrtzog said a distinction had to bo made between the natives and coloured people. They are two totally different groups, and could not be treated on the same basis. The natives desire educacation and civilisation f This could not be denied, yet the industrial development of the native would mean the ruin of the white man. The only honest policy is territorial segregation, to lead finally to industrial segregation. The native then would have an opportunity to develop and become a valuable member of the community. There always had existed a colour bar, but there should be equality of rights for each colour in its own territory. Native segregation would open the way for just treatment of the coloured people, who were to be considered partly European, and would finally have to be treated as whites. They could not ignore the awakening among the natives. He advised, therefore, segregation for natives and final absorption of the coloured people.— (Reuter). ”■*’? | - -■ --1