HALF CASTE GIRLS

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 August 1936, Page 12

HALF CASTE GIRLS

“SHOULD MI WITH WHITES.” BRISBANE, July 30. Professor Archibald Watson, who, for 35 years, was Professor of Anatomy in the University of Adelaide, and is now living at Thursday Island, said, in an interview at Brisbane to-day, that

under the present aboriginal administration, tho Australian half-caste, girl was given no chance whatever.

Instead of being allowed to mix with the white community, where they be-

longed, he said, half-castes were being virtually imprisoned in aboriginal mis-

sions and reserves. The girls had little chance of escaping moral disaster.

“Let them mix with whites. They will do the race no harm, but only introduce a fine healthy strain,” he said. “All signs of the aboriginl will disap-

pear in three generations of white marriages. Aborigines are not ilke negroes and other fuzzy-headed races, whoso characteristics it takes 30 generations to breed out. It is a diabolical policy to put half-castes with aboriginals.” ;