SOUTH AFRICA

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 181, 2 May 1925, Page 6

SOUTH AFRICA

RELATIONS WITH NEW ZEALAND

Sir John Luke, who was a delegate from New Zealand at the recent tour of South Africa of the Empire Parliamentary Association, has received the following letter from the Prime Minister of the Union, dated Pretoria. November 15, 1924:— “Dear Sir John Luke,—On my return vesterdav from a lengthy tour through South-West Africa, I had the pleasure of receiving the letter addressed to me from Johannesburg on October 10 by Lord Burnham .(Great Britain), Sir George Foster (Canada), Senator Givens (Australia) and yourself. I '’desire to thank you very cordially for the .kindly opinions expressed by you on behalf of the Empire Parliamentary Delegation about the Union and people of South Africa. It gives me great pleasure to receive the assurance that our efforts to enable you to enjoy your visit and gather information on local problems have met with such a large measure of success. "There is no doubt that this interchange of visits by Empire Parliamentary delegates does tend to make us better acquainted, and places us in a position to understand each other’s difficulties. To have contributed to the achievement of this better understanding will be a source of gratification to the people of this union, and in anticipation of your kind permission 1 am taking the liberty of communicating this correspondence to the -Press.—l am, yours sincerely, (Sgd.) J. B. Hertzog.”