BLACK VERSUS WHITE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18889, 11 December 1924, Page 10

BLACK VERSUS WHITE.

SOUTH AFRICA'S PROBLEM. CIVILISATION IN BALANCE. [BY telegraph.—press association.] WELLINGTON. Wednesday.

One of New Zealand's Parliamentary delegates to South Africa, Mr. E. J. Howard, M.P., returned by the Ulirnaroa to-day. Discussing population and labour conditions in tho Union, he said the towns were kept in good condition. All municipal work was done by coloured labour— labour paid at the rate of two to three shillings a day. Nearly all tho hard work, or at least all the manual work of South Africa was dono by coloured workers. It was no place for the white working man. He thought everyone was agreed on that. Tho whites were leaving the country and the blacks were increasing at a rapid rate. Speaking at Pretoria, in> October, Mr. C. W. Cousins, census officer, had said the next 10 years would probably settle once and for all the issue as to whether civilisation, as we knew and wished it to be, would survive or not in that continent. The Minister'for Lands had told a deputation of unemployed, representing 400 idle workers, that the same number could be found in every town in the Union, and tho Minister for Post and Telegraphs was reported as having said in a public speech that 16,000 boys left school annually, 50 per cent, of whom had absolutely no hope of finding employment in South Africa. Last year the Europeans leaving the country outnumbered the new arrivals by about two thousand,