AUSTRALIA’S BLACKS
NEVER GIVEN A CHANCE. By Telegraph. Press Aswn.—Copyright. Received May 2, 7.15 p.m. Sydney, May 2. Giving evidence, before the Commonwealth Works Committee, Mr. David Lindsay, formerly labor administrator in the Northern Territory, declared that the territory was a white man’s country. A white man could do »v decent day’s work there, while the aborigines could do much better than they were considered capable of doing. He regarded them as one of the best assets of the territory. They were intelligent and were easily taught anything, but the black fellow never had a chance In any part of Australia to make good. He suggested that the natives in the territory. whom he estimated numbered 20,000, should be placed on Melville Island under the control of married whites, no outsiders being admitted. There they could be taught agriculture, stock-raising and other avocations, and thereby be made valuable citizens. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1922, Page 5
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152AUSTRALIA’S BLACKS Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1922, Page 5
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