HON. GEO. FOWLDS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 9 January 1911, Page 5

HON. GEO. FOWLDS.

HIS IMPRESSIONS OF INTERVIEWED SYDNEY. J\ Received This Morning,; 12.45 o'clock;, ' '•V : STDNEy;january'B.,,V-A'; The Hon. George Fowlds, Minister ; for Education of New Zealand, has arrived at: Sydney'.' ';, V v.■ In the course of an interview, Mr ' Fowlds said he had thoroughly enjoyed his visit to South Africa; He'<:'• had travelled over 6000 miles of the ! country in a special train. He thinks that New Zealand and Australia: have nothing to learn from South•:.Africa;' so far as art and government are con- ' cerned. South Africa, he said, Wbulcl' never be a white man's country, the '■■/; coloured,people so immensely but- :'.,. numbering the whites. The coloured \ people, who came from a sturdystock , increased ''very fast. V Therefore ■ he was not sorry to hear tlian.the In- : dian Government had prohibited the C indenturing of any more Indians:tfbr i ■ the: sugar plaiitatib^suvNatal.:' -The news would be very welcome to V the ?v -Union Parliament,;asj with the ex-:; ception of the sugar planters; every- : i ones was in favour of excluding v coolies. : ; Mr Fowlds believes that Rhodesia /prill eventually come into the Union,: though, for a good many years!it will probably go along on its own'lines as :, a Crown: Colony. There is not the,*( slightest doubt that the British one}! ; Dutch would workiwell together;: no"wr ; the Union was! established. There is ; :, very little bitterness between the two ; peoples.; The. feelihgcaroused ;; duruigvthe elections Ayas Subsiding, as everybody had conscience in Gcnfert; Botha. Before many years had there woklcl bb ; a': gc-ii^al. f actions:! ■:■ : sentiment, fi Questions,, WdiiM v "airise ] which make entirely'; fiew: lines of cleavage iiV pontics; which range both English, and Dutch'; on i each side. Already this had been indi- \ rated. Though there was no Labour •;-', Party, as I iny,; Australia •'.; there was >tbe nucleus' of Vsucliv a ;'.'f party; but up to;theipresent;Labour ti . :'h*mita-j f ;; '•jipiis^.He^^^^^ of. the- moveirieHt : would! Be; •tion\of.a Federal Labour Parly; was satisfied that English would; 1 ;oe; ; s the; I anguage of the future : in ; \ the,. >; Union....;-:'' .'■'■'v-.V .•-':.:'./>'-■ : ; M; :: -;v : : -: ; "-''.r.''.