SAVE THE ABORIGINAL.
PLEA FOR AUSTRALIAN BLACK,
By Telegraph-Press AE6oclation-Co B .TrirM
Sydney, January 21. Ur Mjoberg, a Siveilish scientist, who spent two years amongst the aborigines, in a letter to the Royal Society a pl peals for their preservation in their natural state He says that tho Austra- ™" aboriginal of the Stone Ago was one ot the oldest and most interesting races on the earth. In tho near future it will be a thing of the past. On only one spot in Queensland-on Mornington Island—do tho natives still live untouched by white civilisation, while giving credit to tho mission work, JJr. iljobsrg claims that, no matter haw honest tho intention may be, there is no getting a ,vay from tho results which lollowod civilisation efforts everywhere *i ; asks: Is {t u>o much'to ask that the aborigines should bo 'allowed c i'i ve - "', tll,s ono s P ot tlls sil "Plc life or their forefathers without deterioration ?
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1964, 22 January 1914, Page 5
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157SAVE THE ABORIGINAL. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1964, 22 January 1914, Page 5
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