SOUTH AFRICAN FEARS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19757, 11 October 1938, Page 6

SOUTH AFRICAN FEARS

NAZI AGGRESSION THREAT TO COLONIES AIR BASE BUILDING (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. “I had forgotten what the country here looked like,” said Mr. 11. Les-iie-Melville, a retired Rhodesian mining engineer.” after his arrival at Auckland by the Dutch steamer Tasman, * His father was general manager of the Union Bank of Australasia. Wellington from 1885 to 1901. 'Mr. LeslieMelville was educated at Wellington and Wanganui College before leaving for England with his parents in 1891. Completing his education there, he Weht'tO South Africa with his parents. ' Mr. Leslie-Melville said there was a little anxiety in South Africa over any threat to the colonies for Nab aggression. The only thought of possible trouble was the fact that, with the conquest of Abyssinia, the Italians Were now within 30 flying hours of Johannesburg, but with the relations that existed between Britain and Italy there was little likelihood of trouble on that score. The Union was rapidly arming with an air base and though South Africa had no navy, it had a fine territorial army. There was no'dissatisfaction among the sections of South Africans. Everybody was satisfied and prosperous.

Mr. Leslie-Melville and his wife will viddt Wellington.