UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20894, 25 November 1937, Page 12

UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA

FUTURE OF PROTECTORATES British Official Wireless (Received November 24, 6.30 p.m.) RUGBY, November 23. Asked in the House of Commons whether if and when the transfer of the protectorates of South Africa takes place, it would be done within the terms set out in schedule to the South African Act, Lord Hartington replying for the Dominions’ Secretary said the British Government did not contemplate any departure from the general scheme of administration schedule to the Act, and had no reason to think the Union Government of South Africa desired to propose any such departure. Lord Hartington announced In the House of Commons that at the request of the Government of Southern Rhodesia, and after consultation with the Governments of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, a Royal Commission would visit those territories to ascertain whether any form of closer cooperation or association between them was desirable and feasible, with due

regard to the Interests of all inhabitants and races, and to the responsibilities of the British Government for the interests of the native inhabitants.