LABOUR FOR MINES.
MOZAMBIQUE CONVENTION.
PROVISIONAL EXTENSION. A. and N.Z. CAPETOWN. Feb. 22.
In the House of Assembly, the Prime Minister. General J. C. Smuts, announced that negotiations were still proceeding with Portugal regarding the Mozambique Convention, but there was no prospect of a conclusion before March 31, when the convention • expires. Meantime a provisional agreement had been leached to extend the provisions regarding the supply of natives for the mines for six months. Other portions will lapse, including the South African Government's guarantee to give the Delagoa railway a certain percentage of traffic. Free trade in the products of South Africa and Mozambique ceases. ■In reply to a question, the Prime Minister declared that the Union Government had not been consulted on constitutional issues connected with Kenya. He declined to submit the matter to the British Government unless invited to do so. • ■ ;
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18333, 24 February 1923, Page 9
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