SOUTH AFRICA
A COUNCILLORS PROTEST. Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright PRETORIA, June 13. Tn the Legislative Council, Sir George Farrar denounced the loan guarantee as a fresh instance of Downing street interference in domestic concerns, and taking the vital question of labour out of tin.: Transvaal's hands. ' He added that the Government policy respecting an incrsased supply of natives was merely a, policy of pious hopa in.the teeth of the. findings of many Commissions. There, were signs of the Government's intention to conual the debts of repatriated burghers, while the- leaders of Orangia. unite in hinting at the intention to repudiate, all liability on behalf of the Oruugi- Colony. Sir George Farrar censured I\lr Botha for breaking a promise to protect the mining interests. AMI'LE NATIVE LABOUR, Received 10.40 p.m., June 19th. PRETORIA. June 19. In the Assembly Mr Rissick produced iigures showing that nipple native labour was available, lo replace Chine.:* who aro to ha repatriated during the present year.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13317, 20 June 1907, Page 5
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