A SOCIAL SCANDAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 14 May 1912, Page 8

A SOCIAL SCANDAL.

PROTECTION OF ABORIGINES

VERY SERlObri CHARGES

by cable—par.s& Aboocu'rioN—copyright.

(Received May 14, 8.10 a.m.)

oI'DiNJbA, xUay i 4. The Aborigines I'voteccxou boeiety, in asking the v^oionial ireasurer, Mr j. r lowers, to legislate to impiove tne condition of tne aDorigines, maue some startling allegations.

A member or jfarliament declared that the blacks' camps nau driited into bleeding camps for white . cmidren. many were so white that id would take an expert to tell they were not periectly white. The native gins were xne prey of half-caste youths and low -class whites. It was an unusual thing for a girl to reach the age of lb' years without having a cnild. The only prospect was prostitution for the girls and idleness tor the boys. The wnoie position was a grave and disgraceful ijandal.

Other members of the deputation endorsed these remarkV, a nd "urged that tne only hope was ib'feik'oVe tne chnuien from the camps. '"*

Mr Flowers promised his sympathetic consideration of the matter^ which was becoming a menace to the country.