GULF OF CARPENTARIA
A REPORT. Jjly Telegraph—Press, Association —Copyright SYDNEY, March 12. The Rev. Mr Hall, a New, Zealand Presbyterian missionary, who has been working .for tho past four years among the blacks in the Gulf of Carpentaria, and establishing a mission on Mornington Island (the* largest in the Gulf), says- that it is absolutely a virgin' field. <i . . " The ’blacks are in a primitive state, and are of poor physique compared with tho Papuans, and are inclined to laziness.
n He .hopes, traders will be prohibited from settling on the island. Mr Hall \etnrns north, next week.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8680, 13 March 1914, Page 6
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