Man With 150 Wives
The arrival in Melbourne of a bearded man who owns 150 wives ought to be a matter for considerable comment, but he happens to be the Right Rev. Francis Xavier G<eß, 0.8. E., M.S.C., D.D., the first Roman Catholic bishop of Darwin, and the wives are girls who, under aboriginal tribal law, are born married to native husbands and whom the bishop saves from a life of slavery by buying them for £2 a head. Under aboriginal dispensation they become technically his spouses until he marries them off to young Binghi converts.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32405, 10 March 1944, Page 3
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96Man With 150 Wives Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32405, 10 March 1944, Page 3
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