STARVING ABORIGINALS.
EATING THEIR CHILDREN.
By Telegraph—l'reas Association Copyright#
Perth, February 6. A half-caste aboriginal has brought a| gruesome story from the Northern gold-i fields. He says the blacks there are starving, and are resorting to cannibalism, and are eating their children. This man has come down to ask the Government to da something for the blacks. All kinds of diseases, no says, are rampant among then.
Only last, session au Act was passed by the West Australian Parliament providing for the better treatment of the natives. Child murder «nd cannibalism is cqjgiuoa among the aboriginals.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13096, 8 February 1906, Page 5
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