OUT OF THE BUSH.
NATIVES WERE TERRIFIED. Fifteen men, women and children in West Australia recently saw white people for the first time in their lives. They are uncivilised natives who were forced by the drought to move into Ooldea, on the trans-Australian railway, from the unexplored spinifex regions of cental Australia. Ooldea, a soak in the a sandhills on the eastern fringe of "the Nullabor Plain, is 500 miles east of Kalgoorlie. . When the missionary at Ooldea attempted to touch .him, one lad in his ,’teens fled screaming. Totally naked, the natives had to be taught what clothes were and how to wear them. All were amazed when, for the first time, they' saw houses, horses and carts, .water from a tap, and a motor truck. They were terrified when they saw a train.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 221, 29 June 1945, Page 5
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