AUSTRALIAN HISTORY.
THE CONVICTS’ PLACE
Received November 23, 12.15 p.m. SYDNEY, Nov. 23.
Mr H. M. Green, the Sydney University Librarian, in a lecture on the sesqui-centenary celebrations, 6aid it yould be absurd to attempt to dismiss the. convicts from Australian history. They had played a part in Australian literature as well as Australian life.
“MAGNIFICENT PUNISHMENT.”
AMERICAN COMMENT
Received November 27, 12.15 p.m. NEW YORK, Nov: 22. The New York Herald-Tribune editorially applauds Mr Green’s comments. It eays the criminals transported to Australia and America were ancestors of a robust new people and a new civilisation. “If penal transportation could work such wonders for criminal Englishmen in early Australia and America, let 'us not ignore that it was a magnificent and fruitful punishment which we might well pass on to present offenders,” adds the paper.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 305, 24 November 1937, Page 2
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