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LEGISLATION CONDEMNED TENDENCY TO SLAVERY (Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association.) (Received October 15, 2 p.m.) CAPETOWN, October 14. An important representative body known as the Joint Council of Europeans and Natives, whbh has been sitting for some time to consider the native bills, has issued a lengthy memorandum, the main feature of which is a. strong condemnation of certain clauses of the Land Bill, which, the commission maintains, will introduce a condition scarcely distinguishable from slavery, and usher in a period of misfortune unparalleled in the history of the country. It points out- that there is no possibility of the natives generally being able to purchase land under the Bill, consequently thousands must remain on farms as labor tenants or servants, or migrate to towns where their progress is barred by the Color Bar Act. If they remain on the farms, boards will sit in each magisterial district to distribute the labor tenant force among European proprietors in a manner which cannot truly be differentiated from slavery.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17165, 15 October 1926, Page 8
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