A good story concerning an Australian aboriginal was told by the Rev. Arthur Muriel, in an address to the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association yesterday. The aboriginals, he said, were not very good mathematicians. When it came to counting they usually relied on their fingers and toes. Ope day bo took an aboriginal with him on a fishing trip. Suddenly they came upon a shoal of fish. '“Look, boss, look!” shouted the aboriginal. “Thousands of fish, millions, very nearly five.”
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 259, 29 July 1937, Page 18
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