OUT OF THE BUSH
A group of 15 men, women, and children in Western Australia recently saw white people for the first time in their lives. They are uncivilised natives who were forced by the drought to move into Ooldea, on the trans-Aus-tralian railway, from the unexplored spinifex regions of central Australia. Ooldea. a soak in the sandhills on the eastern fringe of the Nullabor Plain, is 500 miles east of Kalgo'orlie. "When the Ooldea missionary attempted to touch him, one lad in his 'teens fled screaming. Totally naked, the natives had to be taught what clothes were and how to wear them. All were amazed when, for the first time, they saw houses, horses and carts, water from a tap. and a motor-truck. They were terrified when they, saw the Mia*..- ■'■ •■■'■■ ....,_.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 103, 3 May 1945, Page 8
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132OUT OF THE BUSH Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 103, 3 May 1945, Page 8
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