SOUTH AFRICAN CRISIS.
NATIONALISTS DEFEATED. LABOUR SUPPORT REFUSED. (Received 11.30 p.m.) ReuUr. CAPETOWN, April 29. In the House of Assembly the Government's Anti-Profiteering Bill was read a second time by 62 votes to 40. Both the Nationalists and the labour Party had moved amendments. The Labour Party extricated itself from the position of voting with the Nationalists, and thereby endangering the Government by seeking to withdraw their amendment. The Nationalists objected to its withdrawal, whereupon the Labour members left the chamber. The minority consisted solely of Nationalists.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17459, 1 May 1920, Page 7
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