MIXED MARRIAGES
BETWEEN NEGROES AND WHITES LONDON, June 15. Demanding protection for women aborigines, Miss Ruby Rich, the Sydney feminist, told the British Commonwealth' League’s Conference that th e y had neither human rights nor protection agajnst irresponsible white men. Mrs Hill (South Australia), who drew attention to the decline of the aborigines, declared that tile future of the race largely depended oil Australian women.
Miss Fleming, in a loudly-applauded speech, .warmly defended marriages between ”fte'gi , bes and whites. She Condemned colour prejudice, and said there was nothing in anthropology or biology to indicate that a racial mixture was. bad. The supposition that; children of mixed marriages inherited the worst' of both sides was an obvious biological 7 impossibility. Countless- million to-clay were the offspring of intermixtures of the most diverse types.
“It is absurd,” film said, “to think that we are going about in one another’s countries and yet- not going to intermarry.” - :
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1932, Page 6
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154MIXED MARRIAGES Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1932, Page 6
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