BOERS AND BRITISH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 101, 29 March 1939, Page 9

BOERS AND BRITISH.

RELATIONS IN THE UNION. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, March 28. The opinion that there was no likelihood of a Boer rebellion in South Africa unless there was a general conflagration was expressed by Professor L. G. Poeock, of Canterbury University College, in a statement to the Press this evening, when he was asked to comment on a statement hv Squadron-Leader C. Massey, who had said at ‘Wellington that a Boer rebellion fostered by Nazi agents was likely to happen sooner than many people expected. Professor Poeock was born in South Africa and spent many years there before coming to Christchurch. He has just returned to Christchurch after spending three months in the Union, where he made a close observation of political conditions. "I thought the newspapers were a little unwise to print such a statement,” said Professor Poeock. “It- is apparently the statement of a man who feels a little piqued, and is speaking with a certain amount of pique. I would definitely say t-liat his statement is very much exaggerated, and that unless there is a general eonllagration or rome quite unforeseen event occurs there is no likelihood of a Boer rebellion. I think that the Dutch National Party in South Africa is growing stronger, but that it will proceed through recognised political channels.” South Africans who were passengers bv the Dominion Monarch expressed views unfavourable to those given by Mr Massey.