AN INDIGNANT MINISTER.
FEEBLE-MINDED AUSTRALIANS. Fy Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 13, 12.55 a.m. Sydney, February 12. Mr Carmichael is indignant at the. cabled report of 'the Auckland Medical Congress in regard to the feeble-minded. He said: "I don't remetnber ever reading a worse libel on Australia than the statement that 4 per cent, of Australia's children were definitely feeble-minded, and 12 per cent, so mentally dull as to require spe«ial training. I cannot speak for the other States, but so far as New South Wacs is concerned I am convinced the Congress had abso'iitely no data for making such a sweepirg condemnation."
After quoting school statistics in d'pproof, lie added:! "We are grappling in earnest with a difficult problem of providing education for the mentally deficient children, but I do not think, in the interests of Australia, that we can do any good by aggravating our deficiencies. There are plenty of people ready to pry stinking fish in regard to our resources and industrial conditions, but in heaven's name let them restrain themselves vrfien it comes to branding Australia as a land of feeble-minded;''
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 193, 13 February 1914, Page 5
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183AN INDIGNANT MINISTER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 193, 13 February 1914, Page 5
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