MAHATMA GANDHI
EARLY DAYS RECALLED. An effort through Parliament to gain control of £25,000 which is lying idle with the Master of the Supreme Court is to be made on behalf of the Natal Indian community. Originally, in 1894, the sum was £3,000, but it has grown year by year until it now stands at £25,000. Because of legal difficulties it cannot be used for the benefits of the Indian community, in whose interests it is vested. In 1894 Mahatma Gandhi, E. M. Paruk, Parsee Rustomjee ,and other prominent Indians bought properties in Prince Edward Street and May Street, Durban, for about £3,000, which they collected. It was intended as an investment to enable the Natal Indian Congress to use the income for political work on behalf of the Indian community- . . After the departure of Gandhi in 1914 an interdict was applied for on account of differences among the officials, and the funds and properties were placed in the hands of the receiver. When the present congress was resuscitated in 1921 application of the funds was made to the Supreme Court. The application was refused on the grounds that the resuscitated congress was not the legal successor of the 1894 congress.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1938, Page 8
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