HOUSE FOR ABORIGINE
Offer Of Land
SYDNEY, August 21. Moves were made in New South Wales last night to find a new home for an aborigine, Mr Gregg Davis, whose plan to leave his swampside shack to live in a “dream house” in the fashionable suburb of Nambucca was blocked by protests from white residents. Twenty-six persons of Newville suburb had petitioned the council on Monday protesting that the sale of the house to an aborigine would damage the tourist trade and lower land values. Then one of the petitioners bought v the house Mr Davis wanted for his wife and family of four. Last night a Sydney dentist, Dr. Walter Wearn, offered Mr Davis a £5OO block of land for “a shilling deposit and a shilling a week without interest.” The Anglican rector of Macksville (the Rev. A.* A. Smith) said he would try to start a fund to buy Davis a house.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28671, 22 August 1958, Page 11
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