Among the Blacks.
A MISSIONARY'S REFOKT.
I FROM MQRNINCTQN ISLAND. ! {By Electric Telegraph--Copyright i [United Press Association.] (Received 11.30 a.m.) Sydney, March 12. ! Mr Hall, a New Zealand Presbyterian missionary, who has been working for the past four years among 'the blacks in the Gulf of Carpentaria establishing a mission on Mornington Island, says it is an absolutely virgin hold. The blacks are in !their primitive state. They are poor ■in physique compared to the Papu- ' ans and are inclined to laziness. He 'hopes the traders will lie prohibited 'from settling on the island. Mr I Hall returns north next week.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1914, Page 5
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101Among the Blacks. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1914, Page 5
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