BLACKBIRDERS' VICTIMS.
70,000 ISLANDERS. FOUL PAGE OF HISTORY. SYDNEY, October 24. The Rev. Mr. Kench read a paper at a meeting of the Congregational Union dealing with the treatment of natives in the islands of the Pacific. He said tha. for years the natives had been the victims of political intrigue and commercial greed. The story was a sad one and a foul blot on Australia's fair name, and on the escutcheons of other nations. The islanders were tricked out of their lands, corrupted by European vice, and carried away into what was nothing else than legalised slavery by "blackbirders" who supplied labour for the Queensland plantations. It was estimated that 70,000 had thus been taken from their homes. Bad as the story was, it would have been innnitely worse but for the heroic efforts of missionaries.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 254, 25 October 1919, Page 7
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