South Africa
LABOR PARTY PARAMOUNT. THE IDEMNITY BILL By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Johannesburg, March 20. The Rand Daily Mail says the result of the election must arrest the attention of the whole of South Africa. The public has unmistakably expressed its opinion on the banishment of the deported men without trial and the rciprosrtvc policy foreshadowed in the Peace Preservation Bill.
The Star regards the result as merely due to the temporary Labor ascendancy.
Lucas, a prominent Labor leader, stated that the party intended to tax land values in the Transvaal, and abolish the property qualification for the franchise, restore proportional representation, and make secondary education free. Lord Gladstone has assented to tha Indemnity Bill. A SIGN OF THE TIMES. Received 22, 5.5 p.m. Capetown, March 21. In the election of the Union House of Assembly, at Liesbeck, a suburb of Capetown, Maginnis (Labor) won by a big majority. He is the first Laborite elected.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 252, 23 March 1914, Page 5
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154South Africa Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 252, 23 March 1914, Page 5
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