SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS.
General Smuts Resigning. COMING OF NATIONALIST CABINET. Bv Cable —Press Association —Copyright. CAPETOWN, June 22. The final voting figures show remarkable disparity between the votes and tiie actual representation. The South African /arty, W 1“ » minority of 29, pulled hall the total votes. , . , The Press urges that this makes a strong case for electoral revision. It is understood that General Smuts will resign on Monday. General iiertzog’s Cabinet will number eleven. , ... , A new porfolio of Labour will be created if Labour consents to entei the Cabinet. , , ~ . , The Standerton by-election has been fixed for July 16- , The Nationalists have not yet announced a candidate to oppose GeneiaJ Smuts there. „ , _ , Mr Roos, chairman of the Transvaal Nationalists, has invited Dutch members of the South African Party to join the Nationalists on the . giound that the former is now nothing but the old Unionist Party.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 24 June 1924, Page 7
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