AUSTRALIAN BLACKS' CAMPS.
SOME STARTLING ALLEGATIONS. tj Teleeraph—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, May H. The Aborigines Protection League Society, in asking Mr. Mowers (Vice-Presi-dent of the Council), to legislate to improve the condition of aborigines, made itartling allegations. A member of Parliament declared that the blacks' camps had drifted'into breeding camps for white children. Many of the children were so white that it would take an expert to tell that they were not perfectly white. Native girls were a prey to half-caste youths and low-class whites. It was an unusual thing for one of them to reach the age of 16 years without having a child. The only prospect was prostitution of the girls and idleness of the boys. Thei whole formed a grave, disgraceful scandal. ■•;,:- ■■!.: 7(i m-
Others of the deputation endorsed these etatements and urged that the only hope was to remove children from the camps.
Mr. Flowers promised to give eym.pathetic' consideration to the matter, which, he said, was becoming a menace to the country. ■ ■
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1440, 15 May 1912, Page 7
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166AUSTRALIAN BLACKS' CAMPS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1440, 15 May 1912, Page 7
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