ABORIGINES' SCANDAL.
ALLEGATION OF IMMORALITY.
CAMPS A BREEDING GROUND
Sydney, May 14
Tho Aborgines' Protection Society, when asking the Hon J. Flowers to legislato to improve the condition of the aborigines, made startling allegations. A member of Parliament declared that the blacks' camp had drifted into breeding camps for white children. Many were- so white that it would take an expert to toll that they were not perfectly white. The native girls wero a prey to luilf-east© youths and low class whites. It was an unusual thing for one to reach tho ago of 16 without having a child. Th© only prospect was prostitution for tho girls ami idleness for tho boys. On tho wJiolo it was a grave and disgraceful scandal.
Others of tho deputation endorsed what had boon said, and urged that the only hopo was to remove childron from tho camps.
Tho Hon Mr Flowers promised sympathetic consideration of a matter which was becoming a menace to the country.
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Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13417, 15 May 1912, Page 5
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162ABORIGINES' SCANDAL. Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13417, 15 May 1912, Page 5
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