SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, 15 February 1919, Page 6

SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT CONDEMNED. , CAPETOWN, February 12. In the Assembly, Colonel Cresswell, the Labour leader, moved an amendment to Mr. Smartt's motion, recognising that, the status of the Union within the British Commonwealth sesures the people protection and power to deal with national development, together with "security from external dangers, such status has been accepted by two white races as the settlement of racial quarrels. The permanent welfare of the people demands the unremitting attention of Parliament in domestic, social and _economie problems. The House, therefore, records tn 6 conviction that the present movement for the abrogation of the Union will infallibly ecdanger the peace of the country and result in the continued englect of domestic concerns, with disastrous consequences to the future well being. In the Senate the Minister of Post and Telegraphs moved an identical reT, solution. The Acting-Premier, in the Assembly yesterday, declared that the republican movement was an act of dishon our and would inevitably lead to civil strife. If objection was felt to tfte iUnon it should nave neen expressed when the Union was formed.. It was now their duty to abide by the Act.