AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES.
RELIC OF STOXK RAPID EXTERMIKA-X; .. Uy Cal)Ie —Press Association—t'ip.vright Sydney, Jajimuy 21. Dr. Jljoberg-, a Swedish scientist, who has spent two years amongst the aba-, rigines, i» a letter to the Royal Society, • despairs of thoir preservet'wi in their natural state, lie .-.n-, the Australian aboricrin.'' lis of the .sione eye. and one of the o!de.-t and nio.-t interesting races on earth. In the near future he will he a thing of the past. On only one spot in Queensland, on Mornington nl, do the natives still live untouehiL Inwhite civilisation. While giving ereiit to mission work, lie claims that no matter how honest the/ intention ninv lie, there is no getting away from the . results which have followed civilisation efforts everywhere else. Is it too much to ask, lie says, that the aborigines be allpwed ,to live in this one spot the simple life of their forefathers without deterioration?
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 174, 22 January 1914, Page 5
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152AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 174, 22 January 1914, Page 5
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