A SHOCKING REPORT
NATIVE LIFE AT It ABA CL. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received tins day at 12.2;) p.m.) CANBERRA, Nov. 3. The report of the conference of representatives of all missions at Rahatd and Commissioner of native affairs and Commonweath Institute of tropical diseases,’’ into all phases of native life, presented by Murr, contains extraordinary disclosures of revolting depravity and diseaso among the natives. The report states the practices universal in the territory, the worst offenders being generally the best workers. Tho planters refuse to rep rt them as they do not desire the loss of their best hands. The practices are not confined to plantations, but are also found on the mission grounds themselves. The report recommends that offenders instead of as at present being imprisoned, should be flogged, and emphasises the disproportion between the sexes in the population figures.
The report also states that in Rabaul there are only throe residents native women to every hundred men, and every native- woman suffers from venereal disease, with the result that the men carry it back to the villages. Bigamy and pologamy also exist in districts long under effective control. Afore than half the first born babies died at birth, because tho mothers were too young or worked too hand. The high infant mortality was due also to wholeinfanticide. The report also recommends the strict limitation of native secret societies, which in most cases led to awful indecencies. They could not be violently suppressed, but could be confined witlnn reasonable limits.
The report recommends Government recognition of native chiefs and Councils, and that certain officials he nominated by the natives and that a commission 'consisting of these, representatives of the missions and Government, should fix the penalties and deal with other matters in connection with secret societies, which in many cases were used for extortion by blackmail, organised filth and insubordination.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1927, Page 3
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330A SHOCKING REPORT Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1927, Page 3
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