Kitten Returns.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1938, Page 6

Kitten Returns.

A resident of New Plymouth who had a kitten about five months old decided that he would not keep it, and it was given away to the family milkman, who lives about six miles distant. The kitten was taken away, and at lunch time, about a fortnight later, to the astonishment of father and mother, and to the great delight of the children, pussy walked into the house as unconcerned as if it had just strolled in from the garden. A Dying Race. It is estimated that the aboriginal population of Australia has fallen from 200,000 to 40,000 in the 150 years of white settlement. In the sparsely populated Northern Territory of Australia, where the aborigines would appear to have the best chance of surviving deteriorating influences of the white man’s civilisation, the outlook for them appeared as hopeless as anywhere else. A report by the Northern Territory Administrator, Mr C. L. A. Abbott, revealed that the aborigines there are dwindling in numbers, drifting into civilised areas, and suffering badly from tuberculosis. A check revealed that there are not more than 10,000 aborigines living in the whole of the territory, according to Mr Abbott. Until this was made it was believed that there were nearly 18,000.