NEW WOMEN'S CLUB.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 221, 19 September 1938, Page 14

NEW WOMEN'S CLUB.

INTERESTING TALK.

RACIAL INTERMIXTURE.

Members and friends gathered at the Xew Women's Club last week to hear an address by Mr. John Gilchrist on "Racial Intermixture." The president, Mrs. W. }$. Darlow, presided.

Mr. Gilchrist ably expressed the viewpoint that racial intermixture d'd not result in a decadent people, but, ill other conditions being equal, produced a virile and fertile race. Study and reflection proved that the so-called fundamental differences due to the colouring of the various races of mankind were imaginary and had no biological or physical foundation. Given the same environment and the absence of prejudice and adverse economic conditions the children of mixed parentage soon became the equals of their associates and proved to have inherited the best characteristics of both races. There was no such thing as a pure race affirmed the speaker, though peoples who had been isolated from other groups had tended to develop sfiecial characteristics of living and skin colouring adapted to local conditions. By a comparison with a eheet of notepaper the speaker illustrated (J. B. Shaw's contention that the British are a pink and not a white race. If a white skin and fair hair were the badge of superiority, a remote tribe living on the banks of the Amazon River had more title to greatness than the Anglo-Saxon race, he said. Afternoon tea was served by the hostesses, Mesdames Hurley and Macqueene.