NATIVE PROBLEM

Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1935, Page 5

NATIVE PROBLEM

CAPE PROVINCE’S PLAN ELECTORAL RESTRICTION SEPARATE SEATS GIVEN MORE LAND ALLOCATED By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 11.10 p.m. Capetown, April 30. After nine years’ consideration a joint select committee has produced two Bills as a basis for the settlement of the native problem. These deal with their representation in Parliament and land questions. The Representation Bill prohibits the further registration of natives as Parliamentary voters but gives natives of .the whole union the right to elect, through electoral colleges, four European senators and two members of the Cape of Good Hope Provincial Council for which natives will be eligible. The natives’ representative council for the Union is be constituted to consider all legislation affecting them. Chiefs will be entitled to vote according, to the strength of their tribes.

The Native Trust and Land Bill allocates for native occupation an additional 15,000,000 acres of land over and above the 20,000,000 acres forming the existing native reserves. The lands will be merged in the Native Trust and funds will be allocated for the development of native territories and advancing native interests.