SOUTH AFRICA
POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS. GENERAL SALUTS SURPRISED. (Received Saturday, 10.15 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Friday. A journalist, after a two-days’ search, traced! General Smuts who is botanising in the North-eastern Transvaal. “I am very surprised,’ ’ was his only remark when acquainted with the political developments. Ministers who are spending their holidays at their homes have been summoned to a Cabinet meeting at Pretoria on Monday. Some believe General Hertzog will dissolve Parliament immediately. The banks conferred to-day, devising measures to restrict the transmission of money overseas. ''•'-*** ;i - The Johannesburg Stock Exchange called its card to the accompaniment of fireworks. Popular stocks advanced substantially.
Pending a disclosure of the relations between General Hertzog and Judge Roos experienced Parliamentarians advise caution.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 24 December 1932, Page 5
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