The Akaroa Mail, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1926 SAVING THE AUSTRALIAN NATIVE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume L, Issue 5181, 15 June 1926, Page 2

The Akaroa Mail, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1926 SAVING THE AUSTRALIAN NATIVE.

There is no doubt that thoui|B£'tfiT • general sum af progress in -Js increased; t>y the . extension: -6£ civilisation, there i's l>e , said for the native who is • from 'his old haunts and adopt a mode of living' which, i« itej . advance uipon his previous state or* . existence, .is detrimental to his very. continuance as a race. In New Zea- j him& reproach themselves with in the way i ; .they have . treated the .natives, as I £ they ha^tfeert- 11 : £ : f or thriHSrtiy* KaV<i gl^n ;H number tih& 'frave' rs-' S ; presentatlSft^?! l /Parliament. The Australian native cause he -iFa.much mferaor ..species' arid' T?he r; d'is-' cipline c/f civiiisationj Like the Red Indian, h# all kinds of deviltries Fupon (.■withdrawn further and further fn- ? land!. away from civilisation, and l it yis interesting' to note 4n^. f, -the At&tl'ali aft • aboriginal.' A 1 ipetiition has been cSSt ■ ciliated 1 among State . and Federal, ft v"'

;ti r'i iii'.i. Itii in 11F1 -fi i- - ( af :by Colonel 'originator and secretary of the South Australian raove§B^ri§ihal"'Maite * In"' "Centf'al Australia. The movement has for it's c'bject the saving- of the race, which is disappearing;, before the advance of ? , oastoral' sqjttigment and railway ag#i!ph .developtihe ■Bta^e should be a * native tribunal' with a "ftati minis'trator, and have in the Federal ParJ-iament^jimi'lar to that of' the Maoris, $os., now acknowledged 1 that /Hjjfetralian blacks have con'sidgVablajß mental develorpment and of learning industries. Cannibalism nuf' d^erwise' v nati^g.' < tcims jsyould operate, and [whites vrfouldg.jrjot; be allowed to ,enter the