John Xavier Merriman
… orator, he would also be tasked with taking the Irrigation Act through Parliament in 1877. He rejected Carnarvon’s plan … attacked Sprigg’s native policies, as well his Disarmament Act, which provoked the Basuto War. When Governor Bartle … until 1924. In speeches, he opposed the Native Land Act (1913), which curtailed land for Blacks, but in practice …