AUSTRALIAN HISTORY.
THE PART PLAYED BY CONVICTS. (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. 'Mr H. M. Green, librarian at Sydney University, in a lecture on the sesquicentenary celebrations, said it would be absurd to dismiss convicts from Australian history. They played a part in Australian literature as well" as Australian life. AMERICAN PRESS COMMENT. ANCESTORS OF ROBUST NEW PEOPLE. (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 22. The New York “Herald-Tribune,” editorially applauds Mr Green’s comments on Australian history. It says that the criminals transported to Australia and America were the ancestors of a robust new people and a new civilisation. “If penal transportation could work such wonders for criminal Englishmen in early Australia and America,” says the article, “let us not ignore that t was a magnificent, fruitful punishment which we might well pass on to present offenders.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 37, 23 November 1937, Page 5
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