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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3777, 9 November 1907, Page 3

NO ENGLISHMEN WANTED.

Pin-prick Policy of the Boer Government. The plan of the Boer Government of the Transvaal to get rid of all the Englishmen in the South African Constabulary and replace them by Boers is causing great indignation among the men at Home on leave, who have been warned by Sir Richard Solomon, the Transvaal Agent-General, that if they return do so at the risk of dismissal. One of the officers who was just about to return after completing six months’ leave in England, said that he had been informed in a letter from a friend in South Africa, that 900 men would be discharged from the Constabulary before long owing to the work of the Het Volk.

4 ‘ I wrote for my discharge on receiving Sir Richard Solomon’s letter,” he said, “and I shall stay in England. I was in Johannesburg once or twice not verj r long ago, and I saw hundreds of men there out of work.

“If ask me who is to blame for all this, I say the British people who permit themselves to be blown about here and there by every puff of wind.”

Trooper F. Hooper, who came home on April Ist last, having obtained his discharge after six and a-half j 7 ears’ service, said he had been stationed latterly twenty miles from Krugersdorp, on the veldt.

“ Everybody from this country in the service of the Transvaal Government,” he said, “has suffered more or less from the pinprick policy of the Boers. I had enough of it, and that is why I took my discharge, although I had taken the trouble to become proficient in the Dutch language. “They have all got rifles —service rifles. A man had to get a recommendation from the police before he could secure a gun ; but I have never known a case in which the recommendation was withheld. ’ ’