TRANSVAAL POLITICS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 25 March 1907, Page 3

TRANSVAAL POLITICS

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CHINESE LABOUR. Pretoria, March 22. The indentures of 407 Chinese on the Rand expire at the end of June and the remainder in August. Mr Smuts announced that the matter will not be debated until Parliament reassembles in June. .Sir George Farrar urges the appointment of a labor commission. Mr Botha contemplates a two million loan for the Land Bank as soon as convenient. In the Transvaal Assembly C.iieral Beyer*, whose racial partisanship is notorious, promised, speaking in English, to follow the best Parliamentary traditions of the Motherland colony at Ihe i Cape.

GOVERNMENT AND LABOR <,>UES TION. HOUSES ADJOURN TILL JUNE. Received 21th, 4.-13 p.m. Pretoria, March 23. In tl.e Transvaal Assembly Mr. Smuts said he considered the proposed commission of in p.li'v into the labor qise.-tion would likely lead to procrastination, which he believed was the object of tile Opposition. The statement was received with angry protests. Mr. Smuts added that the Government would afford the mines the promptest and most effective help. They intended to tackle the question, and hoped to have a definite policy ready by June. The Legislative Council passed the Asiatic Registration Bill. Lord Selborne reserved the Act for the King's approval. The Legislature adjourned till June.