The citizen and the state; industrial and social life and the empire . ustralian Commonwealth under the name ofPapua. New Guinea is the largest island in the world,with the exception of Australia itself, and the Territoryof Papua has an area of 90,000 square miles, witha population of 272,000, including 1000 government is similar to that of a Crown Colony,the only difference being that the Administrator isappointed not by the Colonial Office in London but bythe Commonwealth Government. Chapter VII South Africa ]. South Africa.—As we have already dealt withNew Zealand, we now come
The citizen and the state; industrial and social life and the empire . ustralian Commonwealth under the name ofPapua. New Guinea is the largest island in the world,with the exception of Australia itself, and the Territoryof Papua has an area of 90,000 square miles, witha population of 272,000, including 1000 government is similar to that of a Crown Colony,the only difference being that the Administrator isappointed not by the Colonial Office in London but bythe Commonwealth Government. Chapter VII South Africa ]. South Africa.—As we have already dealt withNew Zealand, we now come to the last of the great self-governing communities among the overseas dominionsof the British Empire. This is the Union of SouthAfrica. It consists of our two old colonies of the Capeof Good Hope, often called Cape Colony, and Natal,together with the two provinces of the Transvaal andthe Orange Free State. These last two provinceswere formally annexed to the Empire in 1900, though M BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA L-Ta\ganylka\i ^ri/?,,/,, LMoero/] ^vj.^ GERM AN EASTAFRICA. PorV-siGreaf Bushman) Ookiep gJ^-I^rieskaW f^. \5 Carnarvon \cai XCaivinia , ^^^^iuobr-rr, .W?T5ht=flr^ \rv/ Olifanl, R^^ ^ X Siie-ffltS;^?,;):iif^<«l\*^- yPort ^ v/T t r^GAPE.;^^0F-/-GOg)m, H0PE / ^ CapeTown^Paa? ^—^S y^East London ^?/i \ CHAP. VII THE SELF-GOVERNING COLONIES 163 the Boers did not agree to the annexation until thewar was over in 1902. 2. The Union of South Africa.—Cape Colonyand Natal had had their own government for a longwhile, and the Transvaal and the Orange Eiver Colony(as it was called after 1900) had also received self-government when, in 1910, the four colonies were I °T^f^^ :;ilii|f
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