Now You Know!

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19989, 4 November 1927, Page 8

Now You Know!

TO-DAY’S ANSWERS THE GENHK.AL KNOWLEDGE SERIES. Answers to the questions on the Leader Page are as fallows:— I—The four provinces known as the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, the Orange Froo State, and the Transvaal. The mandated territory known as South West Africa (the late German colony) is also administered by the Union Government. - —(a-) The Union of South. Ajfrica is a self-governing Dominion of the British Crown in what is termed the Commonwealth of British Nations, (b) Southern Rhodesia is a colony of the British Crown, with responsible Government, (c) His Alajesty’s East African Dependencies—strictly speaking, not an official title—include the British Colonies and Protectorates of Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland Protectorate, Kenya, Uganda Protectorate, tht Zanzibar Protectorate, and the mandated territory of Tanganyika, the late German Colony in East Africa. These colonies and protectorates have legislative councils (either elected or nominated by the Crown), with local governors or other officers ap-

pointed by the Crown tq admin - ister the Government. 3—The Portuguese Bartholomew Diaz, and Vasco da Gama, towards the

qlose of the fifteenth century. 4 The first European settlement was made in 1652 by Johann Van Riebeek, under the auspices of the Dutch East India Company. 5 -It led to renewed persecution of the Huguenots, some thousands of whom migrated to the Cape in 1688 and settled there permanently, with, important influences on the national life of South Africa. 6 In 1814. 7 (a) Witwatersrand; (b) Kimber]ey; Jagersfontein; Premier Mine, Pretoria; and the alluvial diggings in South-western Transvaal; (c) the North Coast of Natal and Zululand; (d) the Witbank district of Ihe Transvaal. 8— Approximately 1,700,000. 9 (a) The Earl of Athlone, (b) General the Rt. Hon. J. B. M. Hertzog. 10—(a) The open plains of the inland districts of South Africa; (b) the plateau lying in the Cape Northern districts, noted as one of the best merino sheep-raising districts in South Africa; (c) the variety of citrus fruit known as the tangerine.