SOUTH AFRICAN UNION.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1922, Page 8

SOUTH AFRICAN UNION.

POSITION OF RHODESIA. TERMS OF INCORPORATION, By Telegraph.—Press As^.n.—Copyright. Capetown, July 30. In an explanatory statement of the provisional agreement between the Union Government and the Chartered Company, the Premier states that the agreement provides for taking over all the Rhodesian railways, sundry working agreements, also for acquiring 65 million acres of unalienated Crown lands, public works, buildings, telegraphs and 'telephones. The purchase price is £6,215.009 ao from the end of March, 1922, with interest at 5 per cent, to the end of March. 1924, when it is expected the conditions will be fulfilled. The agreement is provisional on Rhodesia entering the L T nion not later than the last-named date.

Capetown, July 31. The terms submitted by the Union Government to Rhodesia for incorporation in the Union were published today. The main provisions are that Rhodesia is to have ten members in the Assembly, to be increased in accordance with the population till the number reaches 17, w-hich is the same as Natal and the Free State. There are to be four elected and one nominated Senators, to be increased to eight elected and two nominated. A Provincial Council is to be established with 20 members wider an Administrator. Measures are to be taken to secure administrative decentralisation. The Administrator will act as agent of the Union Government. The ordinary provincial subsidy will be supplemented by a special subsidy of £50.000 for 10 years, Rhodesia to pay the same taxes as the Union, but for a period of three years after incorporation there will be no alteration in the present income tax exemption. The Union will provide a special development grant of not lees than half a million yearly for ten years for railways, public works, irrigation and land settlement. Language equality will be established as in the Union, but the rights of members in the existing piiblic service will be fully guaranteed. The Rhodesian-Bechuanaland railways will be imwporated in the Union system. with the same tariff. The port of Beira will be further developed. The mineral rights of the Chartered Company will be acquired as soon as circumstances permit. No organised recruiting for native labor for the benefit of other provinces will be permitted. The Union immigration laws will apply to Rhode-