AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES.
A FAST-VANISHING PEOPLE. [from our own correspondent.] SYDNEY, March -23. The question of what to do with the blacks is almost as engrossing, as a national problem, as the family problem of what to do with one's children when they grow up. The Geographical Society of New South Wales has been discussing the future of the blacks, but it seems to have got no farther than any of the Other bodies .which have tackled the problem. When Captain Cook landed in Australia there were probably half a million aborigines. To-day there are not more than 60.000 hanging on to civilisation. It is suggested in one quarter that something will have to be i done to help the blacks to die decently. Well, that is one way of meeting the problem. The only aborigines seen anywhere near Sydney today are those who have made their home at La Perouse, a few miles out by tram. An effort is now being made to have them removed, although to people who visit that spot they seem harmless enough.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19916, 9 April 1928, Page 10
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