SOUTH AFRICA
CATTLE EMBARGO. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association). CAPETOWN, February 1. Replying to a question in the Assembly the Minister for Agriculture said the Government made immediate representations to the British Government against the embargo on the importation of cattle. Owing to the representations of. Africa and other dominions he had reason to believe that a satisfactory agreement; would be arrived at and the necessary legislation introduced. He announced that the Union Government had decided to withdraw from the Leipzig Fair and Brussels Exhibition, WOMEN’S FRANCHISE. BILL DEFEATED. CAPETOWN, February 1. Once again the Union. Parliament has rejected the Women’s Enfranchisement Bill by a majority of one, the voting being fifty-six to fifty-five. General Smuts supported the Bill, but most of the Dutch followers voted with the Nationalists against it. The division was on non-party lines.
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Southland Times, Issue 19757, 3 February 1923, Page 5
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