South-West Africa’s Financial Crisis

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6747, 4 January 1932, Page 7

South-West Africa’s Financial Crisis

DESPERATE POSITION

CAPETOWN, Nov. 27. A strong movement is on foot in Windhoek, South-West Africa, to seel greater co-operation with the South African Union. In one quarter it has been said that the Prime Minister, General Hcrtzog, has expressed his willingness to take over on-Jmhalf of the Union the whole of the South-West’s liabilities and assets, to transfer the ad ministration’s headquarters from Windhoek to Pretoria, and to carry on the Government of the Territory there, with tho south-west as a province oi the Union. South-West Africa would bo given eight scats in the Union Parliament and a place would be found for Mr, Worth, Administrator of the South-West, in the Union Cabinet as Minister of Mandated Territories. It is also suggested that, under these conditions, German might be made a third official language in the province. The position in South-West Africa is desperate. With revenue decreasing tremendously, and only a small fall ii. expenditure; with the rising figures ot unemployed, adverse farming conditions and lowered returns for exports of agricultural and mineral products, even the most rabid anti-Union section is beginning to realise that the territory cannot continue on its present course.