PACIFIC ISLANDS' NATIVES
GRAVE CHARGE OE ILL-TREAT-MENT. (Rec. October 21. 7.10 p.m.) Sydney, October 21. The Rev. Mr.. Ivench rend * paper at the Congregational Union' dealing with the treatment of natives in tile islands of the Pacific. He said that for years the natives had been the victims of political intrigue and commercial creed'. •The storv was a sad one, and a foul.blot' on Australia's fair name and on the escutcheon of other naliofis. The islanders were trieked out of their lands,, corrupted l>y European vices, and carried awav into what was nothing else than legalised slavery by "blackbirders," who supplied labour for the Queensland plantations. It was estimated that seventy thousand had thus been taken from their homes. Had as. tho story was, it would have been infinitely worse but for the heroic efforts of the missionaries.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 26, 25 October 1919, Page 7
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139PACIFIC ISLANDS' NATIVES Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 26, 25 October 1919, Page 7
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