Legalization of a Former Rule Capetown, May 6. he Mines and Works Bill, which Jays down a colour bar against natives and A. sed. its second readi sembly. to-day. The Bill has now been referred to a select Commitee, Mr. Beyers, Minister of Mines, deprecated the speeches of General Smuts and other members of the Opposition as tending to cause disaffection in the native mind. argued that the Bill only enacted the colour bar previously embodied in the regulations of the Transvaa' and of the Free State, which had been found ultra vires. He promised careful consideration as to iwha® extent the Bill should be applied to the Cape Province, The Asiatic aspect was hardly discussed in the later stages of the
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