PROTECTION OF NATIVES
SOUTH AFRICAN MEASURES SPECIAL OFFICIAL PROPOSED [FROM OUR OWN CORUF.SI'ONDKNT] DURBAN, Sept. 1 /Considerable interest has been roused among native authorities and welfare workers in a suggestion that the State should appoint an official to be known as the Natives' Defender, whose duty it would be to see that natives summoned for technical and other offences were properly advised or represen ted in the Courts. Sir James Rose Innes, the former Chief Justice and a champion of native interests, gives the proposal hi? full support. "No man is tried for his life," he said, ' without special arrangements being rna:le for his defence, but such cases are few in number. If, at the other end of the scale, we create a number of offences which arc not known i to common law, and affect natives only, and if we sweep scores of natives into gaol for these offences, special care should be taken to see that the importance of the offence does not lead to a disregard of precautions in favour of the person charged."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22540, 3 October 1936, Page 16
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177PROTECTION OF NATIVES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22540, 3 October 1936, Page 16
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