HIGH COST OF LIVING.
PROTEST IN SOUTH AFRICA. I ; GENERAL SMUTS' PROMISE, j Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ! (Reed. 12.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Sept. 17. The Senate read the Bills for the ratification of the Versailles treaty and for the acceptance of the mandate for South-west Africa a third time without a division. In the House of Assembly a motion was carried regarding the cost of living, after a Labour amendment had been negatived. Following a mass meeting of protest against the high cost of living, a crowd paraded before the Parliament House. General Smuts addressed them, and promised that the Government would do its best to solve legitimate grievances. The Government was in honour bound to prevent the export of foodstuffs required in the Union, but it would be a dog-in-the-manger policy to prevent the surplus going to feed England.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17269, 19 September 1919, Page 7
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