Increase of Half Castes
Australian Census The number of full-blooded aborigines in Australia did not decrease last year, according to a return issued b> the Commonwealth Bureau of Census. The number last year approximate'y was 59,943. as compared with 59.29 5 in 1926; but in 1925 the number was 62.394. The figures relating to half-castes point to a steady increase in their number, averaging about 1.000 a year. Last year the number of half-castes counted in the census was 15,465. In 1926 there were 15,102, and in 392:* 13.393 The bureau states that last year's census was a great advance toward ascertaining the extent to which the aboriginal population has entered irto the economic life of Australia. Vlthough no information was furnished on that point by New South \Val**s. the figures reveal that about 10.0«'.' full-blood natives are in European employ for the whole of Australia, and upwards of 4.000 half-castes. In Queensland there was a marked tendency to gather the />origines into Government and mission stations, an * only about 14 per cent, were leading nomadic* lives.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 270, 4 February 1928, Page 27
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177Increase of Half Castes Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 270, 4 February 1928, Page 27
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