AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume Li, Issue 16894, 26 November 1925, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

PRIMITIVE PEOPLES.

ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION

FUNDS FOR AUSTRALIA?

MELBOURNE, Nov. 17.—1 f Australia measures up to certain standards ot interest in her tackling of problems of research in primitive peoples, it- is probable that the report of an American visitor, Mr, Edward R. Embrco, may result in the Rockefeller Foundation deciding to devote considerable funds to assist the cause of Australian anthropological science. Mr. Embrec, who is in Melbourne, is director of the Division of Science Studies of the famous Rockefeller Foundation of New York. With him is Ur. Clark Wisler, one of America’s best-known anthropologists, who is curator of anthropology in the American 'Museum of natural history, as well as professor of anthropology in Yale University. FTGHT WITH A SNAKE. IN THE DARK. BRISBANE, Nov. 17. —A man named Cusack, employed on a banana plantation at Mount Eerwali, on entering his hut ar night, lit a match, ( aml almost immediately heard a hissing sound. He saw a large brown snake lying on the bed. The reptile struck at. him before lie could move away, and its fangs gripped one of his lingers. lii his excitement Cusack knocked over the candle lie had lighted, leaving him in darkness. He got his finger away, but before he could get out of the hut the snake fastened its fangs to the log of his trousers. Cusack struck the snake with a -hoe handle aiid the reptile made off. It was found injured near the hut next day, and measured aft Kin. Cusack scarified the wound iii the linger arid suffered no ill-effects.