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Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1928, Page 3

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'I he view that if the New Zealand Government had adopted a similar system of trnimVg for its officials in Samoa as that which the Commonwealth Government is now carrying out in connection with its mandated territory, the propaganda that has taken place against the Administration of Samoa might have been less successful, was expressed yesterday by Dr H. G. Denham, Professor of Chemistry at Canterbury College, who Inis just returned from Australia, where be attended tbe biennial conlcrciice ol the Australasian Association lor the Advancement ol Science. One ol the most marked advances that had recently been made in Australia as lar as science was concerned, said Dr Denham, was in the study of anthropology. A Chair of Anthropology had been established at Sydney University, under Professor Racleliffe-Brown. a world authority on tbe subject, and the eflect of his work had already been shown in the changed attitude of the Commonwealth Government towards the government of its native races. Under the Australian Government’s present scheme, an officer, after spending one year in the mandated territory, returned to Sydney in order to study the subject of anthropology in its various bearings before lie takes up his dutr again among the native races. Conceivably, said Professor Denham, if 0111officials in Samoa had a similar ti aiuing into the various aspects of the native mincl some of the present difficulties might not have arisen. ■ -_3i5fjCE23S