The racial problem, how white and coloured peoples are to
live in amity, is never very far from the thoughts of legislators in the Union of South Africa. The second reading of the Native (Urban Areas) Bill was moved by General Smuts in an able speech last week, and this Bill will be the most important piece of legislation in the present session. General Smuts contrasted the state of affairs at the present time with that of his boyhood, and pointed out that to-day, owing to economic changes, natives swarmed into towns which had no adequate preparation to deal with this influx. " One of the most promising provisions of the Bill," said General Smuts, according to the Cape Town correspondent of the Times. " is the establishment of villages specially set apart for natives in urban areas, where the more advanced natives may have their own land and build their own houses.",
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