'A MENACE TO AUSTRALIA.'

Mataura Ensign, 14 May 1912, Page 5

'A MENACE TO AUSTRALIA.'

PROTECTION OF ABORIGINES. « ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT. PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received May 14, 8.10 a.m. SYDNEY, May 14. The Aborigines' Protection Society, asking Mr Flowers (Chief Secretary) to legislate to improve the conditions of the aborigines, made a startling allegation. A member of Parliament declared that the blacks' camps had drifted into breeding-camps for white children, i Many were so white that it would take l an expert to tell that they were not perfectly white. Native girls were the prey of half-caste youths and low-class white men. It was an unusual thing for one to reach the age of 16 without having a child. Their only prospect was prostitution for the girls and idleness'for the boys. The whole condition of affairs was a grave and a disgraceful •candal. 1 Other members of the deputation endorsed what had been said and urged) that the only hope was to remove children from the camps. I Mr 'Flowers promised sympathetic j consideration of the matter, which he | •aid was becoming a menace to th«i country. I