ABORIGINAL QUEEN

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 42, 18 August 1925, Page 9

ABORIGINAL QUEEN

For year* an old aboriginal known as Lucy has lived in ■> dilapidated gunyah a.t Hunter's Hill, ont of the better-class suburbs of Sydney. There, before she became too old to work—she is about 80 years of age—she vu in the employ of several well-known families over a period of about fifty years. Efforts to induce her to leave her old gunyah and to be cared for by the Aborigines Protection Board proved fruitless. All the King's horses and "all the King's men could not drag her away, from the old familiar scenes. Some of the residents, with,the co-operation of the local council, thereupon set out to provide her with a home more bsfitting her former rank, for iha wh, in the heyday of her youth, Quean of the River (Queensland) tribe. She is now living m a snug little two-roomed cottage, which has been comfortably furnished and stocked with provisions, and which, moreover,, hat been opened with picturesque ceremony, in whleh the Mayor handed to her the key of her new home. Lucy could not find words in which to express her gratitude. " Lubly" is all that she said. But it was right from the old lady's heart. . ..