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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1932, Page 4

Late last year the report of the Joint Select Committee of Parliament on closer union in East Africa was published as a Parliamentary paper. It represented the last stage of a discussion which had been going on ever sine,? a provision for possible administrate ve union with adjoining British colonies or protectorates was inserted in the British mandate for Tanganyika. The problem was investigated on the snot by the Ormsby-Gore Commission in 1924, and the Hilton Young Commission in 1928, and by Sir Samuel Wilson, on a special mission in 1929. The “Economist” of November Bth. 1931, referring to the publication of the report, said that the committee’s recommendations were, conservative in the good sense and not in the .bad. While they left the door open for economic 00-oper.ation, with the limits which were then practicable, between the several territories under British administration or control in East Africa, they did' close the door on a very dangerous political vision. This vision was the prospect of a united East Africa enjoying Dominion status as a “white man’s country.” The result would have been a later-day reproduction of the South of the United States before the American C’vil War. The news now to hand hv cable states the time is not yet reached when such far-:, caching stleps 'be taken in the direction of political or constitutional union. It is recommended that tin Governors' Conference should' be used to ensure a continuance of eff etive co-operation in regard to matters of common interest In East Africa.