A GRAVE PROBLEM.

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18521, 29 December 1931, Page 9

A GRAVE PROBLEM.

ADVANCE OF BLACKB. OVERWHELMING SOUTH AFRICA. Already outnumbering the white population by four to one, increasing rapidly and becoming masters of agriculture, the black tribes of South Africa present to-day a grave problem. Striking facts regarding the black races (says a Sydney paper) have been revealed by Mr John Roos, who, as Magistrate and Commissioner for Native Affairs in historic Mafeklng, controls the destinies of 60,000 blacks in that vast territory. He is tho only man who sits in council with the six black chieftains of the Kaffirs and Zulus, lie knows their strength. Mr Roos goes back to his native South Africa with a report on conditions and control of Australian natives, amazed, frankly envious, that our racial position is so predominantly white. Tho Kaffir and the Zulu are fastgrowing races, he says, and in their recently-acquired knowledge of farming, particularly in respect to cattle and sheep, they arc becoming serious i rivals to the sheep and cattle industry of Australia. Master Droughts. "The blacks arc gradually mastering droughts. They get better and better seasons. The danger now is that they might overstock." According to Mr Roos,'-The black makes only one mistake; ho makes a fetish of quantity rather Ilian quality. The more heifers he gets on his ranch - the brighter Iho sparkle in his eyes, go far the wisdom of good quality bulls has not occurred to him. What Daughters Moan. Even sex is exploited by the natives. The daughters of a Kailir or Zulu are agents lo family affuenee. If a Kailir seeks the hand of Miss Kailir ho ran <so only on condition that he presents lo the bride’s parents from 10 to 12 heifers. “I do not know what will happen,” says Mr Moos.