TOWN MAY EVICT ABORIGINES
(N Z. Press Association —Copyright)
SYDNEY, Aug. 27
Racial prejudice against aborigines is running high in several New South Wales country towns, said the acting chairman of the Foundation
of Aboriginal Affairs, Mr R. Hausfield.
Bad feeling existed against the natives in the northernpart of the State, particularly in the Lismore, Walgett and Moree areas, he said. He was commenting on moves at Bega, 300 miles south of Sydney, to evict 150 aborigines from the nearby “Happy Valley” camp. Bega residents claim the aborigines are undesirables who pilfer and terrorise passing motorists. “The people of Bega are to blame for letting this situation exist,” Mr Hausfield said “If Bega was a good town, these agorigines would have found work and good homes . . but it isn't a good town.”
Mr Hausfield said if Bega aborigines came to Sydney they would be helped to assimilate and find steady employment “Why there is all this trouble I don’t know,” he said “Aborigines are just like other people. The only, difference is the colour of their skin.” The foundation is a recently formed private body.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30531, 28 August 1964, Page 11
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