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INDIAN OPINION January 30th, 1925
-NATIVE PASS ORDINANCE
DEPurATlol; RECEIVED BY GI!t.ERAL HERT70G
Pretolla, Jan. 20 (ReMer) -Some time ago the MIDlster of
J u,tice ordered that the Native Night Passes Ocdmance of 1902,
m,its,appucation to fem.les. should be enforced as on Feb. l-
To-day the Pnme M~olster 10 IllS capacity as MInister of Native
Allans, received a, large ilnd influential deputation of lhe Jomt
Eurdpe':m and Native Council, churches and other bodies Oil this
question. /
The members of the deputation urged delay lD putting the
order into operation on the grounds t/lat the best means of deahng
With the admitted evil 9f 199se Native women in the towns had
not b~en properly investtgated, n9r had N ahve opinion been
consulted.
Mr. Howard hm and olhers IIrged .that the pass system would
not attalll Its object , _
The deputation was m9st sympathetically received by Gen ral
HertzoDg wh:>; It IS understood, said that'the law must be carned
out
He wou;d\ hOVlever, consult With the Mmister of Jusllce, and
ask for the postponemev.t of t\,le operation of the order for sj,,-
, months -
• He asked the joint Counc,I't9 submit t9 him wit"in three
months ~ rep9rt suggestmg, the best method to be adopted with
~ega)d tQ the cqn~rQI of Native women In tbe towns.
tUROPEAN WOMKN'~ DEPUrATION
Pretoria, Jan 23 (Reuter) -A deputation consishng of represeutatl.eo
of the ,Wo!pan's FederaltOIl, The Yo omen's S. A. P.
and ,he Women's N ahona\)st Par1y, "'1-lted on the Prime MIDlSter
to,day, -and assur¢4 111m of \heir strongest support In the
~nflbrcem mt of the proposed La\)' regard)~ Dlgbt passes for
N atlve Wom~ll.
]l;frs De Waal, on behalf of tile 'Vomen's FederatIOn, urged
that the-Government ~h9uldr compel Native girls to carray monthl?
passes" and to be,mechcally exammed.
In con ectlOn ;'lIth thIS matter It WiS learned ID Pretoria this
morDlng that the Government had dectdcd to po.tpone the operation
of the \ct tIlt May I, and not for SIX m9nlhs a.< preVlOusly
stated
News in Brief
Ge')rge DJugla;. a South Afncan m Dl"g englOeer wh~
accordmg to hiS record'came to thIS couutr.l at the ge of five
• and was co wlcted 16 tIme'; for theft,_ frau i and forgery and
finally',deported and wh' has recently been ~ente'ced at th~
Nottlnltham Quarter Se stOns at Rltford 10 fo~~ year,,' p!na\
servitude for a Ii~mllar off~ce 'is r,eport"d to ,have m de an
arnuslD't sts'ernent IV the cOllrt, "that once a nan 'fas down
ID S"utb Afnca" whether black or white, It was very difficult fvr
him to flse again I"
ACCOldtng to a Geneva message a telegram was sent by Mr.
Gandhi [rom IndIa to Mr. Alex:ai!(ler repr