SCIENCE CONGRESS.
CUSTOMS OF BLACKS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—CopyrightMelbourne, Jan. 15. The Science Congress decided, to form an Australian Public Health Association with the object of promoting public and personal health. Professor Sir Baldwin Spencer, in a paper -on the Australian Blacks, explained that it was the duty of certain relatives to eat the corpses of the dead in a belief that they thus absorb the virtues of the departed. Onlookers regard it as cannibalism, but the practice is actually of a ceremonial origin. Professor David in a paper on ‘‘The Romance of Ice,” said that probably the greatest coal mine in the world was in the Antarctic. It was certainly a mile in length, and the thickest seam was seven feet.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1921, Page 5
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