TRIP THROUGH AUSTRALIA
Some of his experiences on a 6000-mile tour through north-west Australia were related by the Rev. Arthur Muriel in an address to the 'Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association at its monthly luncheon yesterday. Mr. Muriel, who was accompanied on his tour by his wife, said that one of his most pleasant reminiscences was of a 300-milc journey along the coast in a lugger manned by aboriginals. Although the aboriginals were considered to be a dying race, there were still about 60,000 of them in Australia. Their history and habits wore being studied at one of the universities there. In some parts of the Commonwealth the population was very cosmopolitan'. Ho had been told that more than 30 different nationalities were represented at one place, where he found that tiie price of admittance to a picture theatre varied according to one’s colour. Mr, Muriel said that: during his tour he used twelve different modes of transport. including a donkey and an aeroplane.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 259, 29 July 1937, Page 15
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163TRIP THROUGH AUSTRALIA Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 259, 29 July 1937, Page 15
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