PACIFIC ISLES.
TREATMENT OF NATIVES*
"A SAD STORY." ' SLAVERY METHODS ALLEGED. By Telegraph.—P.-ess Assn.—Copyright. Received Oct. 24, 7.10 p.m. Sydney, Oct. 24. The Rev. Kench. read a paper at the Congregational Union dealing with the treatment of Natives in the islands of the Pacific. He said that for years the natives had been the victims of political intrigue and commercial greed. The story was a sad one and a foul blot on Australia's fair name. The islanders were tricked out of their lands, corrupted by European vice*-, and carried away into what was notli: i . else than legalised slavery by "black - birders," who supplied labor for the Queensland plantations. It was estimated that 70,000 had thus been taken from their homes. Bad as the storv was, it would have been infinitely worse but for the heroic efforts of the mossionaries.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 October 1919, Page 5
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142PACIFIC ISLES. Taranaki Daily News, 25 October 1919, Page 5
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