THE NATIVE PROBLEM.

Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19565, 2 May 1935, Page 7

THE NATIVE PROBLEM.

BASIS FOR SETTLEMENT. MOVE BY SOUTH AFRICA. RIGHT TO ELECT SENATORS. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. CAPETOWN, April 30. After nine years of consideration the Joint Select Committee of the Union Parliament has produced two bills as the basis for a settlement of the native problem. The Representation Bill would prohibit the further registration of natives as Parliamentary voters, but would give the natives of the whole of the Union the right to elect, through electoral colleges, four European Senators and two members of the Gape Provincial Council, for which natives would be eligible. A natives’ representative council for the Union would be constituted to consider all legislation affecting them. Chiefs would be entitled to votes corresponding with tho strength of their tribes.

The Native Trust and Land Bill proposes to allocate for native occupation an additional 15,000,000 acres of land over and above the 20,000,000 acres which form Hie existing native reserves. Tho lands would be merged in a native trust and funds would be allocated for the development of native lerritorics and advancing native interests.