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TO SOME AUSTRALIANS LIVING IN OUTBACK AREAS. MEN WHO HAD NOT HEARD OF WAR. (Special Australian Correspondent.) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Australia has its hillbilly citizens who live a life remote from the outside world. Two brothers from the upper reaches of the Hawkesbury River did not know Australia was at war until they were called up for Army service recently. Officers who spent weeks endeavouring to catch up with them found that they had never read a newspaper, heard a radio or been to school. They could not read or write. Another recruit from the same locality had never- seen a woman except his mother. One call-up officer' declared: “There are many similar cases in the great hillbilly areas of New South Wales.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1943, Page 4
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130WORLD UNKNOWN Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1943, Page 4
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