AMONG THE BLACKS.
VIRGIN FIELD FOR MISSIONARY EFFORT. B; Selegraph—Press Association— CopyrieM Sydney, March 12. ■'• The Rev. Mr. Hall, a New Zealand Presbyterian missionary, who has been working for the past four .years among the blacks in tho Gulf of Carpentaria, and establishing a mission on Mornington Island (the largest in the Gulf), says that it is absolutely a virgin field. ' The blacks are in a primitive state, and arc of poor physique compared with the Papuans, and aro inclined to laziness. ...,.' Hβ hopes that traders will be prohibited from settling on. the Island. Mr. Hall returns north next week.' ; .
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2006, 13 March 1914, Page 7
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100AMONG THE BLACKS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2006, 13 March 1914, Page 7
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