CENTRAL AUSTRALIA
MISSIONARIES AND ABORIGINALS NORWEGIAN JOURNALIST’S CHARGES Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright CAN BEREA, April 1. (Received April 1, at 1,30 p.m.) Allegations regarding the treatment of and the detrimental influence upon natives by white missionaries in Central Australia, attributed to Mr T. Anderson, a Norwegian journalist, who has just returned from seven years of study of the conditions in the interior, and who contributed articles on the subject to European newspapers, have caused profound surprise in official circles at Canberra.
It is officially stated that the Government is prepared to order an immediate inquiry into the statements made if their author is prepared to substantiate his general allegations with particulars of places and persons referred to in his denunciation. Mr Anderson accused the missionaries of fostering a half-caste race which, he said, would eventually become a burden on the nation, and he made sensational charges regarding the relationships between certain missionaries and the aboriginals.
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Evening Star, Issue 21993, 1 April 1935, Page 9
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