SOUTH AFRICA
NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION DEFEATED. CAPETOWN, January 29. The Nationalist motion of no-confidence was defeated by 71 votes to 57. WOMEN'S FRANCHISE. CAPETOWN, February J.. Once again the Union Parliament has rejected the Women’s Enfranchisement Bill by a majority of one, the voting being 56 votes to 55. General Smuts supported the Bill, but most of his Dutch followers voted with the Nationalists against it. The division was on non-party lines. EMBARGO ON CATTLE. CAPETOWN, February 1. Replying to a question in the Assembly the. Minister of Agriculture said that the Government had made immediate representation to the British Government against the embargo on the importation of cattle. Owing to the representations! of South Africa and the other dominions he had reason to believe that a satisfactory 7 agreement would be arrived at and the necessary legislation introduced. The Minister announced that the Union Government had decided to withdraw from the Leipsig Fair and the Brussels Exhibition.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3595, 6 February 1923, Page 22
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