THE NEGRO PROBLEM.

Wairarapa Age, 23 September 1930, Page 6

THE NEGRO PROBLEM.

SOUTH AFRICAN MINISTER’S VIEW. SALVATION IN SEGREGATION. United Press Association. —By Electric ; Telegraph.—Copyright. 1 CAPETOWN, September 21. , Referring to the partitioning of Af- 1 rica by European Powers, Mr. P. G. W. ■ Grobler, Minister of Lands in the Union . Government, said: “We shall refuse to ■ acquiesce in the mistake of forty years < ago being repeated by the declaration 1 that within any British territory the ' natives’ interests will have preference • over Europeans. lam positive we shall ' find the salvation of both races in . segregation, and we are going to do ' it.” GROSSEST HYPOCRISY. COMMENT ON MR. GROBLER’S SPEECH. CAPETOWN, September 21. The South African legislator, Mr. Patrick Duncan, the recognised leader of the English-speaking section of South Africa, characterised the Minister of Lands (Mr. Grobler’s) East African speech about native development on his own lines as the grossest hypocrisy. He summed up the Nationalist native policy in the slogan, “Drink, disfranchisement, forced labour,” “but,” he added, “if the interests of European settlers in East Africa are to be subordinated to the interests of the natives, South Africa will certainly side with the Europeans.”