, , / Since the Government has refused to amend a ten-year-old act, many bar« in South African towns will be closed in a few months' time. Ten years ago the late Mr. Tielman Itoos, the Minister of Justice. sponsored tliu act whereby bars were given ten years an which to be eonverted into hotels, failing which tbey would be closed. The ten years will be up at the end of this year. Numbers of bars throughout the country have been rebuilt, and have blossorned into hotels with the requisite ten bedroorns, but others have hoped that the act would be amended, and have hung on. It has now been announced that they will havo to close. In Capetown and Johannesburg a few bars giving special services, and a few in areas not served, by hotol bars, will be re^rievod. ■4 /
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 171, 6 August 1937, Page 9
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