Hertzog’s Clear Win

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 690, 15 June 1929, Page 9

Hertzog’s Clear Win

SMUTS PARTY 11 BEHIND

Eight Seats ,To Labour (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Received. 9.45 a.m. CAPETOWN, Friday. FOUR returns, including' a gain at Colesburg, bring- the Nationalist total to 70, leaving the South African Party 59, and Labour eight.

Ten results are awaited, including Tambuland and East Griqu aland,

where there is a large native vote. Both are certainties for the South African Party. Tliis means that the final result will probably be: Nationalists 78 South African Party .... 61 Labour 8 The Nationalists polled 22,000 more than at the last election, the South

African Party 6,000, and Labour 10,000 fewer.

The election shows that the old racial divisions are rampant in the rural districts. The Prime Minister, General J. B. M. Hertzog, has a clear majority. He will probably propose a coalition with the five supporters of Colonel Creswell, the leader of one section of the Labour Party, which Colonel Ores well, with a wrecked party, is unlikely to accept.

General Hertzog is expected to dissolve the Senate. Even the reconstituted Chamber will not give him the requisite two-tliirds majority to carry his native legislation. Backed by his Ministers, ho stampeded the northern provinces into believing that white civilisation was endangered, while Labour support enabled him to retain a few constituencies which had been expected to return South African Party candidates. The “Cape Times” characterises the rejection of General Smuts as a national calamity, at which the world will stare with surprise. Five Nationalist Ministers, including General Hertzog, met at Pretoria and discussed the allocation of the portfolios. Parliament is expected to meet on July 19. It is reported that General Hertzog made up his mind to dissolve the Senate and thereby appoint eight of his own faith; but this is still insufficient to command a majority to carry the native legislation.