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ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY
AUSTRALIAN ASSURANCE
LONDON, .Tan. 9.
Sir Jobi Harris, secretary of the Ami-Slavery Society; amplifying his statement on January 3, in which lie welcomed the assurance that Australian aborigines were treated in a humanitarian way, said to-day that the society was particularly glad to learn that tlie subjects to which the Australian Government was giving attention included the establishment of special courts for aboriginal offenders and the anomaly of using the police as protectors. The society was also pleased at the assurance given by Mr. Lyons that the Government’s policy regarding half-caste children was in complete accord with the society’s views, namely, that these very sensitive people should, as far as possible, be advanced to the standard of tlio wliite, instead of being thrust hack into the misery and degradation of the aboriginal standard.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18918, 21 January 1936, Page 3
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